Fig. 186.—St. Julien le Pauvre, Paris. Chapel, south side of Choir.
The refectory of the abbey of St. Martin aux Champs is a most noble apartment of the first half of the thirteenth century, and some of the foliated carving is among the finest of its period ([Figs. 189], [190], [191]) while the
Figs. 187, 188.—Corbels, Western Portals, Nôtre Dame, Paris.
Sainte Chapelle, said to be the work of the same architect, carries on the style a little farther, and is too well known to need any remark from me.[80] Of later architecture there are also many specimens, though my tastes and leisure have not allowed me to go much into them. There are also several minor works of the early styles, of most of which I do not remember the names. The Hôtel Cluny, itself a charming specimen of the domestic architecture of the fifteenth century, contains, besides its invaluable collection of movables, a most interesting mass of fragments of architectural detail well worthy of several days’ careful devotion.
Fig. 189.—Capital, St. Martin aux Champs.