Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . n cloisters as England,and in the north, at all events, has nothing to showcomparable to those of Canterbury or Gloucester. Butin the south, especially in Provence, there are fineexamples, very unlike ours, but beautiful and best of them is perhaps that of S. Trophime atAries (Plate CVII), which owing to the declivity of thesite stands high above the church floor and is reachedby a considerable flight of stairs. The north and eastwalks are Romanesque, of the 12th century, and the othertwo sides have been re-built in late Gothic times. But
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . n cloisters as England,and in the north, at all events, has nothing to showcomparable to those of Canterbury or Gloucester. Butin the south, especially in Provence, there are fineexamples, very unlike ours, but beautiful and best of them is perhaps that of S. Trophime atAries (Plate CVII), which owing to the declivity of thesite stands high above the church floor and is reachedby a considerable flight of stairs. The north and eastwalks are Romanesque, of the 12th century, and the othertwo sides have been re-built in late Gothic times. Butthough their arcades are of the 15th and i6th centuriesthe outer wall even of these sides seems to be of the ^ Les statuaires du XIP siecle en France commencent par aller a tdcoledes Byzantins. II faut avant tout apprendre le 7; Iartisteoccidental ne pouvant sastreindre k la reproduction hieratique des quil saitson metier, regard autour de lui. Diet. Rnis. art. Sculpture. The wholeof the article is excellent. Plate cm.
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