Authon-Ébéon - Notre-Dame de l'Assomption

When after the 100 Years´ War marauding mercenaries in great numbers looted the area, many of the rural Romanesque churches got fortified, to offer the villagers a safer place. That is what happened in Authon during the 15th century. Many archivolts carved in the in the "style saintongue" are covered with a band of endless "foliage". Here that design is reduced to a geometrical design, that looks very "modern". Kind of "abstract foliage".