Note 210 — Chapter VIII · Gothic in the Midi

Polychrome decoration is to be found everywhere in Auvergne: Royat, Riom, Mozac, Saint-Saturnin, Orcival, Saint-Nectaire (where are some of the best carved capitals in the region), Issoire (observe La cène sculptured on one of its capitals), Le Puy, and Brioude. This latter is one of the most beautiful of XII-century churches, showing Burgundian traits as well as those of Auvergne and the Velay. The influence of the Romanesque school of Auvergne spread to Parthenay, Saintes, Nevers, Toulouse, Santiago, and Avila. Congrès Archéologique, 1904, p. 542, E. Lefèvre-Pontalis, on Brioude; Congrès Archéologique, 1895, pp. 96, 238, 292, on Saint-Nectaire; and p. 177, “École romane d’Auvergne,” H. du Ranquet; Bulletin Monumental, 1909, vol. 73, p. 213, “Saint-Nectaire,” Abbé G. Rochias.