History of mediæval art . insome measure, and was hence earlyemployed in Burgundy, as at Autun,Beaune, Sanlieu, etc. The civilization of Western Switzer-land* was closely related to that of Bur-gundy. After the year 888 this countryhad even formed the chief part of thekingdom of Upper Burgundy, which inthe beginning of the tenth century ex-tended to the borders of the relations were not interruptedwhen, early in the eleventh century,Western Switzerland was detached fromBurgundy and united to Germany bythe emperor Henry II. In ecclesias-tical respects Switzerland was entirelydepe
History of mediæval art . insome measure, and was hence earlyemployed in Burgundy, as at Autun,Beaune, Sanlieu, etc. The civilization of Western Switzer-land* was closely related to that of Bur-gundy. After the year 888 this countryhad even formed the chief part of thekingdom of Upper Burgundy, which inthe beginning of the tenth century ex-tended to the borders of the relations were not interruptedwhen, early in the eleventh century,Western Switzerland was detached fromBurgundy and united to Germany bythe emperor Henry II. In ecclesias-tical respects Switzerland was entirelydependent upon France, the Bishopricof Lausanne belonging to the Archiepiscopal See of Lyon, later ofBesangon. Romainmotier, in the Canton of Vaud, after 919 in the posses-sion of Cluny, exhibits in its church the influence both of theProvence and of Burgundy, with the rudest possible details. Theenormous columns, entirely without ornamentation, and the three-aisled, two-storied portico resemble the Church of St. Philibert in. Fig. 213.—System of Vezelay. * R. Rahn, Geschichte der bildenden Ktinste in der Schweiz. Zurich, 1876. 23 354 ARCHITECTURE OF THE ROMANIC EPOCH. Tournus. This similarity is probably explicable by the contempo-raneous erection of the two buildings, it being almost certain thatthe older parts of Romainmotier were constructed by the abbotOdilo of Cluny, A. D. 994 to 1049. The Church of Payerne (Peter-lingen), near Avanches, after 962 also a dependency of Cluny, dis-plays, on the other hand, a barrel-vault and transverse arches sup-ported above the nave upon piers, which are provided in the mainaxis of the plan with engaged columns, serving as the impost of thearcades. Above the side aisles, which are covered with cross-vaults,clerestory windows are cut through the barrel-vault of the determining the degree of resemblance between the style ofthese buildings and that of Cluny, we must not compare them withthe Abbey Church of the latter town, destroyed d
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