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From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> 3) Benignus of Dijon (?).
> Dijon's cathedral is a former abbey church dedicated to B.
the most important feature of which --for art hysterians-- was the massive
early 11th c. Rotunda off the east end
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:F08.Saint-B%C3%A9nigne_Dijon.Rekonstruktion.001.2_.jpg&filetimestamp=20100712164205
http://architecture.relig.free.fr/images/dijon/dijon_plan_crypte.jpg
the work of the great reforming Abbot William of Volpiano (+1031) and
presumably a "replica" of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
now destroyed, known from 18th c. engravings and excavations:
http://www.richesheures.net/epoque-6-15/eglise/21/dijon/dijon-arch02.jpg
(Three engravings, half way down this page:)
http://www.encyclopedie-universelle.com/abbaye%20-%20Volpiano.html
http://s47.radikal.ru/i115/0810/ea/6e935e727591.jpg
(i don't know what that last one is of, but it's not Dijon --some other H.S.
copy, i assume.)
c
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