. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. olumn and a vaulting shaft above it, taking the spring of anintermediate transverse arch, is common in French churches of the twelfth may be seen in the smaller churches of Champeaux, Nesle, Angicourt, and laMadelaine at Troyes, in the cathedral of Lausanne, and in some of the French cathe-drals, as Noyon, Mantes, Senlis, and Sens. ?^ In 1564 the monastery had become extinct, and the property passed into the handsof the Vatican chapter. Towards the middle of the seventeenth centur
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. olumn and a vaulting shaft above it, taking the spring of anintermediate transverse arch, is common in French churches of the twelfth may be seen in the smaller churches of Champeaux, Nesle, Angicourt, and laMadelaine at Troyes, in the cathedral of Lausanne, and in some of the French cathe-drals, as Noyon, Mantes, Senlis, and Sens. ?^ In 1564 the monastery had become extinct, and the property passed into the handsof the Vatican chapter. Towards the middle of the seventeenth century, it became theproperty of the Doria family, who are still the owners. Donna Olimpia Pamphile,sister-in-law of Innocent X., who died in 1657, made the site her favorite built a great palace within the precincts of the ruined monastery, restored thechurch in the barocco taste of the time, and was buried there, as is shown by two inscrip-tions, one placed over the door of entrance, the other in the pavement in front of thehigh altar. Frothingham, in Jour, of Arch,^ vi., p. Fig. 338. Plan of S. Martino. THE MONASTERIES 153 rior, beyond which, but separated by a square apartment whose useis not known, was the chapter-house, larger than either of those abovementioned,—a double square in plan, divided by a line of threegrouped piers into two aisles, each covered by four square groinedvaults with dividing pointed arches and moulded ribs. The chapter-house nearly closed one side of what seems to have been a secondcloister, — the first adjoining the church, and the two separated by arange of buildings which was probably either a dormitory or a refec-tory, or possibly both combined.
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