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Title: History of mediæval art
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919 Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920
Subjects: Art, Medieval
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Civray, Lusignan, andelsewhere. The cupolas which were common north of the Garonne weredeveloped in the valley of the Loire to a peculiar form. In Fon-tevrault the dome was not supported upon pendentives, separatedfrom it by a cornice, according to the Byzantine method, but restedon the transverse arches intersecting with the hemispherical vaultwithout an intervening cornice. It is difficult to say what influencemay have been exercised upon this development by Lombardicmodels, and by the concentric edifices which had long been com-mon in this region. In some cases the cupola was divided byribs, which were placed not only in the diagonal but in the axes ofthe plan, the dome thus approaching in appearance to a Gothic FRANCE. 359 vault with stellar groins. This method was probably derived fromthe similar transformation of the cross-vaults begun in the twelfthcentury. It led to the treatment of the surfaces between the ribsas separate compartments, like those between the diagonals of the
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Fig. 216.—Facade of the Cathedral of Angouleme. cross-vaults at Vezelay. These systems did not, however, attain toa higher degree of perfection, for the Gothic style, which in themean time had made its appearance, absorbed the attention and theconstructive ingenuity of the builders. 360 ARCHITECTURE OF THE ROMANIC EPOCH. While, in the South of France, classical traditions had contin-ued with but few changes, although with certain local variations,in the East influences of the Rhenish countries had made them-selves felt, and in the West Celtic reminiscences had given a pe-culiar stamp to the architectural style, the North of France waschiefly affected by Northern Germanic elements. Even in the Me-rovingian epoch the classic methods of building had fallen so en-tirely into disuse that the models for the chief convents built underthe Carolingians had to be brought from abroad. The last tracesof Roman architecture were swept away by the Normans, who, aftermany incursions, at last establ

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