History of mediæval art . Fig. 369.—System of the Cathedralof Lucca. ni i » ? ? f tntr. im Fig. 370.—System of the Cathedral ofBologna. the sixteenth century. The retention of Romanic arrangements anddetails is at times more evident than it was during preceding Maria del Carmine at Pavia, founded in 1373, not only follows inits plan the transitional style of the Cistercian constructions, buteven adopts the Romanic cube capital for the boltels. In compar-ing this church with that of S. Andrea at Vercelli, built more thana century and a half before, it must be acknowledged that there ism
History of mediæval art . Fig. 369.—System of the Cathedralof Lucca. ni i » ? ? f tntr. im Fig. 370.—System of the Cathedral ofBologna. the sixteenth century. The retention of Romanic arrangements anddetails is at times more evident than it was during preceding Maria del Carmine at Pavia, founded in 1373, not only follows inits plan the transitional style of the Cistercian constructions, buteven adopts the Romanic cube capital for the boltels. In compar-ing this church with that of S. Andrea at Vercelli, built more thana century and a half before, it must be acknowledged that there ismore of the purely Gothic element in the earlier than in the later 37 578 THE EXTENSION OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. structure. The Gothic style was not adapted to the architecturalconceptions of Italy. Having paid its tribute to the fashion of theage, that country seemed to incline rather towards a retrogrademovement, — a return to previous methods, — than towards anyfurther development of the French system. A full an
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