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Chap. I.
PROVENCE.
611
are more curious than of any other cloister in France, so far as I know
—some of thera showing so distinct an imitation of Egyptian work as
instantly to strike any one at all familiar with that stylo. Yet they
are treated with a lightness and freedom so wholly medheval as to
show that it is possihle to copy the spirit without a servile adherence
to the form. Iiere, as in all the examples, every capital is different—
the artists revelling in freedom from restraint, and sparing neither
time nor pains. We find in these examples a delicacy of handling
and refinement of feeling far more characteristic of the South than of
the ruder Korth, and must admit that their architects have in these
cloisters produced ohjects with which we have nothing of the kind in
England to compete.
484.
Capitals at Cloister, Elne.
485.
From Taylor and Nodier.
2 e 2
PROVENCE.
611
are more curious than of any other cloister in France, so far as I know
—some of thera showing so distinct an imitation of Egyptian work as
instantly to strike any one at all familiar with that stylo. Yet they
are treated with a lightness and freedom so wholly medheval as to
show that it is possihle to copy the spirit without a servile adherence
to the form. Iiere, as in all the examples, every capital is different—
the artists revelling in freedom from restraint, and sparing neither
time nor pains. We find in these examples a delicacy of handling
and refinement of feeling far more characteristic of the South than of
the ruder Korth, and must admit that their architects have in these
cloisters produced ohjects with which we have nothing of the kind in
England to compete.
484.
Capitals at Cloister, Elne.
485.
From Taylor and Nodier.
2 e 2