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CH. xxn] FRANCE BURGUNDY 123the influence of the East on the architecture of the West Roundduring the Romanesque period, thinks the suggestioncame rather from the domed mausolea of Roman work suchas that of the Princess Constantia which was built between326 and 329, and that of the Empress Helena. Neitherof these however had an open eye in the centre of thedome, though S. Costanza has the annular vaulted aislewhich occurs at Dijon. He says that the fashion ofrotundas with cupolas and annular vaults was importedfrom Rome to the East, and not as some suppose fromthe East to the West 1 . However this may be it wouldnot follow that the rotunda at Jerusalem was not takenas the model for S. Benigne and other round churches inthe west of Europe in the nth century because it wasitself based upon western examples of the 4th. OfNeuvy S. Sepulchre it is expressly recorded that it wasbuilt "adformam S. Sepulchri Jeroso limitani*"It was from the workshops of Cluny that architecture Themade a fresh start in France. But independently of theshelter afforded by the cloister to the peaceful arts theBurgundians themselves seem to have had a natural turnfor the manual crafts. The Byzantine historian of the5th century says of them that "they lead an easylife alltheir time. For they are nearly all of them craftsmen,and subsist on the wages they get thereby 3 ." Underthe protectionof the Church their native bent for thearts found full scope for its efforts, and a school ofarchitecture was founded of which the influence spread1Rivoira, Origini, etc. vol. n. p. 32.2Archives des monuments historiques, cited V.-le-Duc, vni. 283.3 eQvos m ftdpfiapov ircpav rod Trorafiou 'Prjvov e^ov rrjv OIKTJCTIV^ Bovpyovv&covesKaXovvrcu. OVTOL (Siov dirpdyfJiovaOKTLV del- TCKTOVCS yap cr^e^ovirdvrcs