Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . yzantine about them. The capitals in particularare based on Roman Corinthian, with deeply channelledfolds and pipings, and rounded raffling, quite unlike thesharp crisp acanthus, and the flat surface treatment ofthe Byzantine school. Many of them contain figures ofbirds and animals admirably posed, and at S. Gilles,along the edge of the architrave that runs under thefrieze, is a series of little animals—lions, dogs, andwhelps of various kinds—carved with life and spirit thatit would be hard to surpass. In the figures however, with their draperies in stra
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . yzantine about them. The capitals in particularare based on Roman Corinthian, with deeply channelledfolds and pipings, and rounded raffling, quite unlike thesharp crisp acanthus, and the flat surface treatment ofthe Byzantine school. Many of them contain figures ofbirds and animals admirably posed, and at S. Gilles,along the edge of the architrave that runs under thefrieze, is a series of little animals—lions, dogs, andwhelps of various kinds—carved with life and spirit thatit would be hard to surpass. In the figures however, with their draperies in straightand deep-cut folds, there appears a character foreign tothe classic art of the west. They have nothing aboutthem of the Gallo-Roman style, but breathe instead thespirit of the religious art of the East. Now it has been pointed out in a previous chapterthat figure sculpture on a large scale played no part inByzantine architecture. It is only on a miniature scalethat the Greeks employed it; in ivories and triptychs Plate CVI sv I. )¥ i \ ??^ ?:J. .f . S. GILLES x CH. xx] FRANCE—PROVENCE 71 and such-like portable articles, of which a vast quantity Byzantinefound their way along the line of commerce westward. ^^^^It was therefore from these that the infant schools ofFrance probably derived inspiration. A still more fertilesource was found in Byzantine paintings, where figureswere introduced without reserve; and in illuminations ofmanuscripts, and actual pictures, in which the Greeksexcelled the westerns as much as they fell behind themin the plastic art. Figures too were largely employed inthe embroideries and woven stuffs from Eastern looms ;which were rich also in geometrical and floral patterns,that were freely copied in the conventional ornamentsof all the western schools, including those of the Crusades of the nth and 12th centuries openeda wider communication between west and east; Europeanprincipalities were established at Antioch and Edessa andfina
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