Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ilice quae usitata locutione vulgiAcus vocatur, prope Aniciensem urbem sita, ubi quondam vix agiliumhominum erat adscensus ecclesiam coUocare gestiens, etc., enimviam ampH itineris in praedicta silice constituens, in honore Sti MichaelisArchangeli ecclesiam intuitui cernentium gratam, Christi faventi auxilio, inAcu fundare studui. It was afterwards an Abbey: then annexed to theCathedral and allotted to one of the Canons. 144 FRANCE—AUVERGNE [ch. xxiii Sculpturein Au-vergne in the angles. The vaulting is of plain cross-groiningwithout ribs (Pla
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ilice quae usitata locutione vulgiAcus vocatur, prope Aniciensem urbem sita, ubi quondam vix agiliumhominum erat adscensus ecclesiam coUocare gestiens, etc., enimviam ampH itineris in praedicta silice constituens, in honore Sti MichaelisArchangeli ecclesiam intuitui cernentium gratam, Christi faventi auxilio, inAcu fundare studui. It was afterwards an Abbey: then annexed to theCathedral and allotted to one of the Canons. 144 FRANCE—AUVERGNE [ch. xxiii Sculpturein Au-vergne in the angles. The vaulting is of plain cross-groiningwithout ribs (Plate CXXV). During the Romanesque period sculpture, it will havebeen noticed, does not play so important a part in theschool of Auvergne as in those of Provence and Burgundy,or even that of Aquitaine. Examples of statuary arevery rare, and the sculptors art is confined chiefly tocapitals, which are very largely carved with figuresubjects, especially in the eastern part of the decoration appears to have been common, and.
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