. Romantic Germany. t ofBrunswick, they were dismayed but the Bishopstretched forth his left arm, crying, Leven Kerle,truret nich, hier hebbe ek noch dusend in minerMaven. (My dear fellows, be not dismayed. Ihave here a thousand more [men] up my sleeve.)Then they knew that the good bishop carried in hissleeve Hildesheims greatest treasure, the reliquaryof the Virgin, and, taking heart, they put the enemyto rout, slaying fifteen hundred of them and captur-ing rich spoils. EfVer since, the old gentlemanconcluded, our dear Lady has lived under a goldenroof. Not far from this quiet close I found a
. Romantic Germany. t ofBrunswick, they were dismayed but the Bishopstretched forth his left arm, crying, Leven Kerle,truret nich, hier hebbe ek noch dusend in minerMaven. (My dear fellows, be not dismayed. Ihave here a thousand more [men] up my sleeve.)Then they knew that the good bishop carried in hissleeve Hildesheims greatest treasure, the reliquaryof the Virgin, and, taking heart, they put the enemyto rout, slaying fifteen hundred of them and captur-ing rich spoils. EfVer since, the old gentlemanconcluded, our dear Lady has lived under a goldenroof. Not far from this quiet close I found another feastof beauty. The lawns and gardens surrounding the Churchof St. Michael meant renewed thoughts of old Eng-land, and the interior brought back like a refrain theholiest memories of Italy. For though the Roman-esque is more truly the national style of Germanythan any other, yet this most perfect of NorthernRomanesque interiors cannot help suggesting theland of its birth. The alternation of light and dark 208. THE NAVE OF ST. MICHAELS CHLRCH HILDESHEIM AND FAIRYLAND blocks in the transept arches reminds one of Siena,while the pure beauty and variety of the capitalstake one back to Ravenna. These capitals pass fromthe simple dice design of the year 1000 to thetimid attempts at low relief of the middle, and thehigh relief of the end of the eleventh century, withgrotesques and even medallions between the angelcorners. These, in turn, pass into the luxuriantstone foliage of the twelfth century, peopled withlittle faces and figures. It pays to prowl long in St. Michaels, for there ismany a surprise in store for the appreciative, such asthe eight archaic beatitudes over the columns of thesouthern aisle, with their hint of Assyrian influence;or the delightful angels and saints on each side ofthe wall separating the western choir from thenorthern transept; the tombs, the altarpieces, andthe crypt where Bernward reposes and shows himselfeven here for the saint and artist that he
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