IV.—<i>Cluny II and St. Bénigne at Dijon</i>
Kenneth John Conant
The excavations at Cluny resulted from a project of 1926, sponsored by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, to make series cavalier restoration drawings three great French monastic sites—Cluny, St. Martin Tours, and Martial Limoges. buildings these sites needed be restored ‘visual history’ in order give increased clarity our understanding medieval architecture. A study can never more than beginning, however; finished ruined site necessarily calls into play refined techniques which classicists have developed their work. may turn out as broad Knossos, demanding lifetime investigation, because extent, long history, varied influences represented architectural remains. This proved case Cluny, where remains span eleven centuries.
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