A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . is made up fromthe departments ofBleurthe and Moselleas they existed be-fore the War of1871. This tract,small as it is, mustle considered apartfrom the great regionof central France(Part L) liecauseofits long dependenceupon the GermanEmpire and its lateannexation toFrance. Nancy,Epinal, Bar-le-Duc,and Verdun harillycome under Freiicliinfluence more thanthe towns on theRhine or in West-phalia until theeighteenth , therefore, theless recent styles,even including thelate Gothic, are sonearly French i
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . is made up fromthe departments ofBleurthe and Moselleas they existed be-fore the War of1871. This tract,small as it is, mustle considered apartfrom the great regionof central France(Part L) liecauseofits long dependenceupon the GermanEmpire and its lateannexation toFrance. Nancy,Epinal, Bar-le-Duc,and Verdun harillycome under Freiicliinfluence more thanthe towns on theRhine or in West-phalia until theeighteenth , therefore, theless recent styles,even including thelate Gothic, are sonearly French in France, Part III.: Colombier at Boos (Seine-Inperiehre). See the plan and section under 118 FRANCE character that it requires careful study, and indetail, to ditierentiate theiu, this fact is themore interesting as showing the immense influ-ence of French art and the wide radiation of thatinfluence from 1050 to the rise of the time ofthe well-established classical Renaissance. The early Romanesque work of this region isof extreme interest, for, although there are but. France, Part III.: Windows of the Hotel BotrRG- THEROULDE, RoUEN ; EARLY NORMAN RENAISSANCE. few pieces requiring special mention, they are ofunusual character. The crypt of the church atRemiremont is one of these. The church atRambervillers (Vosges), though it has someGothic additions, shows a .singularly jnire andsimple Romanesque style, and the church ofRollainville (Vosges) is one of the best smallround-arched churches in France. The oftencited appearance in Rhenish art of elements119 FRANCE borrowed from Byzantine sculpture is haidlynotable in these churches among the hill countryof Lorraine. Their sculpture is as severe andas strictly architectural in character as that ofNormandy. With the Gothic epoch there ap-pears at lipinal () a church of the earliestperiod hardly past the time of transition. AtSaint-Die (Vosges) the cloister and the choir ofthe church, very beautiful though of mi.
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