Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Tc V Si £:>>=J I ,• I /- PCs-. « tm H Er-*»-i CIVRAY CH. xix] FRANCE—AQUITAINE 49 In many of the capitals of these churches the influenceof Byzantine ornament is obvious, derived no doubt fromthe woven fabrics, and other works of Byzantine artwhich found their way along the line of Venetian andEastern commerce. Mixed \yith this however we find Appear-in the 12th century a new , and the grofesque^grotesque makes its appearance. This element points toa northern rather than a southern origin, and probablyresulted from intercourse with
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Tc V Si £:>>=J I ,• I /- PCs-. « tm H Er-*»-i CIVRAY CH. xix] FRANCE—AQUITAINE 49 In many of the capitals of these churches the influenceof Byzantine ornament is obvious, derived no doubt fromthe woven fabrics, and other works of Byzantine artwhich found their way along the line of Venetian andEastern commerce. Mixed \yith this however we find Appear-in the 12th century a new , and the grofesque^grotesque makes its appearance. This element points toa northern rather than a southern origin, and probablyresulted from intercourse with the Normans, Danes, andEnglish. For grotesque is the fun of the north ratherthan of the south. The interlacing patterns of scrolls andanimals biting and intertwining with one another whichplay so large a part in the Saxon manuscripts are repeatedin the carving of wooden churches of Scandinavia, andon the crosses and monuments of the northern settlersin Britain and the north of France. And here in Poitouand Aquitaine this style of ornamentation seems to haveencountere
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