Dome

Looking up at the columns dividing the nave; The greatest Gothic building in Toulouse is the Dominican chapel, now the Jacobin church. It was begun between 1230 and 1250 as a modest chapel, divided into two aisles by a central row of columns. A polygonal choir was added in 1285-1298, its vault supported on a column [28 m in height] from which radiate 22 ribs. The rest of the church was vaulted with quadripartite vaults in the 14th century. [There is also a cloister and other conventual buildings. St. Thomas Aquinas was interred in the cloister, 1369.] Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 5/18/2011)