A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . , Part IX.,Labium) constructed vaults and the accessoriesand sulistructures of those vaults as similar work was done in the North at the same time. The monasteries of theCistercians have in great numbers MONASTIC ARCHITECTURE mentation, whicli, indeed, they seem always tohave avoided. In later times tlie Dominicans,who retained tiicir weight and influence to aremarkable degree, followed the style of theperiod, and some of the most remarkable con-ventual buildings in Europe of Renaiss
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . , Part IX.,Labium) constructed vaults and the accessoriesand sulistructures of those vaults as similar work was done in the North at the same time. The monasteries of theCistercians have in great numbers MONASTIC ARCHITECTURE mentation, whicli, indeed, they seem always tohave avoided. In later times tlie Dominicans,who retained tiicir weight and influence to aremarkable degree, followed the style of theperiod, and some of the most remarkable con-ventual buildings in Europe of Renaissance architecture are of their Imild-ing. (See Cistercian, above.) The Carmelites, founded in Jemsalem in thefifth century, built many churches in the four-teenth and fifteenth centuries in Italy. The Gesuati or Jesuat monks built little,but their buildings are interesting. (See JesuatArchitecture.) The Jesuits, one of the latest of the greatorders, seem not to have developed a new jjlan. Monastic Akchitecture: Chapter House at Fossanova, Latium, Italy. throughout central and eastern France, Ger-many, Italy, and the British Isles; but tlieorder decayed at an early time, the buildingshave been destroyed or have passed into vulgaruses, and it is only in very recent timesthat the important Italian ruins have beeninvestigated (see especially Enlart, op. cit.).The Cistercian monasteries in England and Scot-land are nearly all in ruins, but as ruins tlicyhave been much admired and somewhat studied(see Abbeys of Scotland ; Ablieys of Yorkshire).The Dominican monks, called also Curdeliers,the Preaching Friars, and, at a later time,Jacobins, are an order of later foundation,originating in the twelfth century. Theybuilt excellent Gotlii(^ buildings, thorough inconstruction and intelligent in constructionaldesign, but without sculpture and similar orna-929 or a new arrangement of monastery, but theirchurches in towns arranged for purposes ofpreaching are of peculiar i
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