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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 153

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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 MEDI/EVAL PERIOD. not far distant from Lyons towards the… … FIG. 35. THE AINAY, 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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