# Interior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ARCHITECT, French]() - Date: 1001-1050 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary At the beginning of the twelfth century, the west of France experienced the sudden blossoming of the art of the domed vault, a feature probably inspired by the domed church of San Marco in Venice. The most significant domed churches of western France are the convent church of Fontevraud, Saint-Pierre in Angouleme, Saint-Front in Périgueux, and, in its renovated form, Saint-Hilaire in Poitiers. The church of Saint-Hilaire dates from the first half of the 11th century, it was consecrated in 1049. The interior of the building was completely reorganized from around 1130 onwards, when an ambulatory with radiating chapels was added, as well as two new side aisles on each side. The original narrow, projecting transept with its two eastern apses remained, as did the upper walls of the nave and its wide apse. The photo shows the nave with double-storey divisions of the inner side aisles. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/zzzarchi/11c/2/poitiers.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">ground plan</a> of the Saint-Hilaire, Poitiers. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Bird's eye view]() - [Burial lantern]() - [Castle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()