Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine (1905) (14780372555)

Identifier: cathedralschurch01mans (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: (Mansfield, Milburg Francisco), 1871- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Cathedrals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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belongs so far as its generalcharacteristics are concerned. Not all the church architecture of Cologneis Gothic; indeed the churches of the Apostlesand St. Martin each show^ the Lombard influ-ence to a marked degree. The three apses,and their round arches and galleries, are likea bit of Italy transported northward. St. Maria in Capitola, founded by the wifeof Pepin, has the same characteristics, whileSt. Martin has the outline of quite the idealRomanesque church. Its great tower, whichfills the square between the apses, is certainlyone of the most beautiful to be seen on a longround of European travel. This tower mustdate from the latter years of the twelfth cen-tury, and yet, although of a period contem-porary with the Gothic of Notre Dame deParis, it is so thoroughly Romanesque thatone wonders that, in Cologne at least, the styleever died out as it did when the great Gothiccathedral was conceived. St. Andrews is another triapsed church,and is considered one of the best and most 268
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6-R055 5t. AA/^RTI/VCOLOGA)E -•^•*.. Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine elaborately designed fabrics of the Roman-esque type on the Rhine, particularly in re-spect to its central tower, the nave, and thewest transept. There has been much late Gothic rebuild-ing, but the chief characteristics of the earlierperiod distinctly predominated. The apsesare polygonal, but it is thought that they may,in earlier times, have been semicircular likeSt. Martins, St. Marys, and the ApostlesChurches. St. Gereons is an octagonal church similarto that of Charlemagne at Aix-la-Chapelle.Even more than the latter it has been altered,rebuilt, and added to, but the original outlineis still readily traced in spite of the fact thatits foundations may have come down fromthe fifth century. It is more difficult, how-ever, to follow its evolution in detail than itis in the case of Charlemagnes shrine at Aix-la-Chapelle. The style is distinctly Rhenish, though notalone in Germany do such round churchesexist;