Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ^^ _ - .. ? ^^s 1 ( South Porch—LE PUY Plate CXXII. -. ^is- s» Kin- .1 :.-4:, r jc^./SJf// Capitals of South Porch—LE PUY CH. xxiii] FRANCE—AUVERGNE 141 of scroll work below the stage of the volutes ; and in acapital from the cloister at Le Puy (Fig. 108) with itsByzantinesque birds dipping into a cup, and its leavesthrown sideways, is it too fanciful to detect a suggestionfrom the blown leaf capitals of S. Apollinare in Classeat Ravenna, and those in S. Demetrius and S. Sophiaat Salonica ? (Plate III, vol. i. p. 52). One of the most remarkable features
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ^^ _ - .. ? ^^s 1 ( South Porch—LE PUY Plate CXXII. -. ^is- s» Kin- .1 :.-4:, r jc^./SJf// Capitals of South Porch—LE PUY CH. xxiii] FRANCE—AUVERGNE 141 of scroll work below the stage of the volutes ; and in acapital from the cloister at Le Puy (Fig. 108) with itsByzantinesque birds dipping into a cup, and its leavesthrown sideways, is it too fanciful to detect a suggestionfrom the blown leaf capitals of S. Apollinare in Classeat Ravenna, and those in S. Demetrius and S. Sophiaat Salonica ? (Plate III, vol. i. p. 52). One of the most remarkable features of this church is Le Puy,the south porch, with its singular detached ribs within po^chthe true arches of the construction (Plate CXXI). Theyspring from columns, like themselves detached from themain jambs. The capitals of these columns and of thewhole group of shafts carrying the arches are verystrange, and unlike any other French examples knownto me, and in their semi-barbarous richness remindone of Indian work rather than that of any other school(Plate CXXI I). Some of the shafts
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