The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 156
the merits ofany. It was begun in the eleventh century, and notcompleted till the sixteenth. The plan is that of abasilica with an apse at the east end of the choir. Thereare a central nave and side aisles, but the latter stop attheir eastern extremity with square ends, and are notcontinued round… … FIG. ST PIERRE, VIENNE. 126 MEDIEVAL PERIOD. figures after the Romanesque style; while the archesare pointed and ornamented with billet mouldings. Aboveand below the triforium gallery is a course of red stonecontaining sculptures of all sorts of subjects, like theinlaid work of Auvergne. The…
Architecture -- France Provence · Architecture -- France Riviera
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