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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 823549" data-attributes="member: 53455">A Carolingian church in the vineyards... September 2019: in the Burgundy hamlet of Igé, stands the Sainte-Bénédicte (yes, a lady saint) church. Already mentioned among the possessions of the abbey of Cluny in 935, its oldest parts are clearly Carolingian, i.e., from the times of Emperor Charlemagne, crowned in 800: most of the nave and of the transept —look at those squarish shapes and enormous buttresses, in spite of the modest size of the church... Remember what I already mentioned (about the early Christian church in Sardinia I posted above) regarding the fear the builders had that their church would collapse?It looks like the apse was rebuilt in Romanesque style around Year 1000, as well as the bell tower: you can tell because of the &lt;i&gt;bandes lombardes,&lt;/i&gt; (“Lombard stripes”), which you have already encountered and know now, and which were typical of the “First Romanesque Art” brought into France around 1020 by the mæstri comacini from the Lake Como area in Lombardy.Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 24-70mm, ƒ/4 S lens, handheld.[ATTACH=full]409642[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 823549, member: 53455"] [B]A Carolingian church in the vineyards...[/B] September 2019: in the Burgundy hamlet of Igé, stands the Sainte-Bénédicte (yes, a lady saint) church. Already mentioned among the possessions of the abbey of Cluny in 935, its oldest parts are clearly Carolingian, i.e., from the times of Emperor Charlemagne, crowned in 800: most of the nave and of the transept —look at those squarish shapes and enormous buttresses, in spite of the modest size of the church... Remember what I already mentioned (about the early Christian church in Sardinia I posted above) regarding the fear the builders had that their church would collapse? It looks like the apse was rebuilt in Romanesque style around Year 1000, as well as the bell tower: you can tell because of the bandes lombardes, (“Lombard stripes”), which you have already encountered and know now, and which were typical of the “First Romanesque Art” brought into France around 1020 by the [I]mæstri comacini[/I] from the Lake Como area in Lombardy. Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 24-70mm, ƒ/4 S lens, handheld. [ATTACH type="full"]409642[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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