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Dear Jim,
Perhaps that's too neat. In late 11th- and 12th-century Italy churches were built in brick, in stone, or in both, the availability of easily procured raw materials having a lot though by no means everything to do with the choices made in given instances (tufa-rich areas, for example, show greater use of stone construction than do other areas).
So I'd separate the native/imported issue from that of construction materials. Whether of brick or of stone, the the "gothic" churches of the early Cistercians in Italy employ architectural features that I think of as imported: a higher nave vault with tall piers and tall external buttresses.
On this view, BTW, Tiglieto is _not_ "gothic" but instead a "romanesque" church with external buttresses along the side aisles. See
http://www.tiglieto.it/foto/35.htm
and
http://www.tiglieto.it/badia%20plastico.htm
Whether its design were also imported is a question I can't begin to answer. Someone with greater experience of Piedmont and Liguria probably could.
Best again,
John Dillon
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 17:57:12 -0600
Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear John,
>It looks, at the very least, that the "typical" Cistercian plan was built in Italy in
>various combinations of native Italian brick construction and what I would presume
>to be an imported stone building technology (e.g. Fossanova).
>Cheers,
>Jim Bugslag
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