History of mediæval art . me, is supported byeight columns, with capitals of the Corinthian and composite orders{Fig. 118 a and c), connected by archivolts. Beneath this superstruct-ure was a crypt of equal diameter, in the middle of which a thickcolumn, roughly imitating the Ionic forms {Fig. 118 b), supportedthe encircling barrel-vault; similar vaults covered the surrounding 15 226 THE CHRISTIAN ART OF THE NORTH. passage. Notwithstanding later additions and reconstructions, theplan and details clearly exhibit the influences of the early Christianart of Italy. Even more important than the Con
History of mediæval art . me, is supported byeight columns, with capitals of the Corinthian and composite orders{Fig. 118 a and c), connected by archivolts. Beneath this superstruct-ure was a crypt of equal diameter, in the middle of which a thickcolumn, roughly imitating the Ionic forms {Fig. 118 b), supportedthe encircling barrel-vault; similar vaults covered the surrounding 15 226 THE CHRISTIAN ART OF THE NORTH. passage. Notwithstanding later additions and reconstructions, theplan and details clearly exhibit the influences of the early Christianart of Italy. Even more important than the Convent of Fulda was that ofSt. Gall, the buildings of which have, indeed, experienced so manyalterations that no understanding of its original arrangement cannow be obtained from them, but which nevertheless, through the dis-covery of the original plan, has become the best-known cloister of theCarolingian epoch. This design appears not to have been entirelycarried into execution, perhaps because of difficulties presented by. Fig. 118.—Details of Columns from the Chapel of St. Michael in Fulda. the conformation of the ground, yet it is nevertheless of the mostsignal importance to architectural history. St. Gall had somewhatdeclined with the increasing prosperity of Fulda, but, through thepatronage of Louis the Pious, its abbot, Gozbert, A. D. 816 to 832,was enabled to undertake an extensive reconstruction, for which theplan in question was drawn by an anonymous architect, who verypossibly had stood in some connection with the establishment ofFulda. The large drawing upon two sheets of parchment {Fig. 119)displays, in the characteristic draughtsmanship of the Carolingianepoch, all the complicated arrangement of a cloister of that main approach leads between a variety of farm buildings to the ARCHITECTURE. 227 western front of a large basilica. This is provided with two choirs,like that of Fulda, and with two towers, disposed symmetrically at - — z ? 1 1 V 01
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