Farges, Saint-Barthélemy, interior, nave, southern aisle. They combined the Lombard tradition of construction with local building preferences to produce an astonishingly new architecture. In a building like Cluny III, masons used this sophisticated combination of vaults and supports to create thin, penetrated walls and to open high and wide spaces. Ashlar was introduced at points of support, and a new scale of classicism and sculptural carving was added to an architecture largely devoid of individual stone decoration. Masons also refined the skeletal, point-support system that is basic to groin vaulting in First Romanesque architecture. In buildings like the small chapel at Berze-la-Ville and the enormous abbey church at Cluny, they exploited the earlier brick system of corbeled relieving arches to support larger and more complicated barrel vaults.1 They also took advantage of this improved structure to expose the wall as a series of separate, delicate planes, and to open the central space.2 Space was opened vertically through high, narrow, and pointed barrel vaults, and horizontally through wide and high aisle arcades. The result is four curving surfaces that draw the eye up and toward the center. Click to enlarge image 1502IslandVillage11800.jpg Groin Vault Groin. During the eleventh century, in the region of southern Burgundy masons improved the structure and expanded the range of architecture. A groin vault is formed by two barrel vaults intersecting at right angles. Click on the gallery thumbnail images below to see larger images.
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