The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 147
lfind more strikingly illustrated in more Southern examples.The peculiar incrustations in red and other coloured stones,which have a pleasing and Eastern effect, are a feature ofcommon occurrence in the churches of the Auvergnat, I 22 MEDL^iVAL PERIOD. not far distant from L)ons towards the… … FIG. 35. THE AIXAY, LYONS. Romanesque of the end of the twelfth century. The flatarcades of the interior (Fig. 36), composed of large trefoiledarches, resting on fluted pilasters, are very characteristic ofthe Burgundian style. The idea of these pilasters is derivedfrom those of the Roman gates at…
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