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J6}) The Gothic parts of the cloister have piers alternating with coupled columns, and the details have evidently (as sometimes occurs) been executed so as to correspond in design with the older work. Of the bas-reliefs on the piers the best are the most ancient. The same general remarks on the style apply here as in the case of the porch ; there being a great mixture of classic and Romanesque influence in both. In this great structure we thus find an epitome of Provencal art. The cloisters and... porch, representing the richly decorated Provencal form of Romanesque ; the nave. ARLES. 191 the plain reformed style of the Cistertians ; while the choir exhibits the weak sort of Northern Gothic imported in the fifteenth century, which is entirely without interest beside the more impressive examples of genuine Provencal architecture. It will be observed that in the main structural features the pointed arch is employed, while in the portal, cloisters and windows the round arch is used. At the "Alyscamps, " the famous cemetery of Aries (described in Part IV.
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