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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 250

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t now forms the south aisle of theenlarged cathedral erected in the fifteenth century. But AIX-EN-PROVENCE. 219 this old church (according to Merimec) is itself a restora-tion of a still more ancient building, of which some remainsare yet preserved in the western portal (Fig. 93), the archi-tecture… … FIG. 95. CLOISTERS, ST SAUVEUK, AIX-EN-1KOVENCE. with twisted and fluted shafts and straight arched lintelare, however, restorations of the twelfth century. To thatdate also belongs the interior (Fig. 94), with its pointedtunnel vault strengthened at intervals with transversearches. The arches…

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