. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. vails, and when there is time as well as the necessarymeans for glorifying the one God or the particular divi-nity, by grand proportions, forms of beauty and ex-quisite workmanship. Now in these we have here to dowith, there, was none of this. As to the princes, they were * All the works of this gentleman are well deserving the attention of thearchitect or antiquary. Not only are they characterized by a thoroughknowledge of the subject treated and by profound research, but a pleasingand clear style als
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. vails, and when there is time as well as the necessarymeans for glorifying the one God or the particular divi-nity, by grand proportions, forms of beauty and ex-quisite workmanship. Now in these we have here to dowith, there, was none of this. As to the princes, they were * All the works of this gentleman are well deserving the attention of thearchitect or antiquary. Not only are they characterized by a thoroughknowledge of the subject treated and by profound research, but a pleasingand clear style also distinguishes them. 190 TRANSYLVANIA. too busy in defending their land and throne to think ofthe like; and there was no priesthood wealthy or power-ful enough to commence such works. The churches werebuilt by citizens—mere peasants frequently, whose father*,or who themselves had come hither to escape tyranny inanother land. They are, so to say, burgher churciand they received their peculiar impress from the cha-racter of the builders, and the circumstances amid whichthey were CHURCH AT TEAPOLP. The object of such a building being a place of worship,was connected with the intention of making it a place o^strength. This determined, in a great measure, its was placed, if possible, at a spot not easily accessible, MEDIASCII. 191 on a mound or the top of a hill.* Such a one is theparish church of Trapold, standing on rising ground inthe middle of the village. The view to defence also wasa reason why solidity was preferred to ornament; andwhy, in these Saxon fortified churches, we find all broad,strong, firm, and wholly destitute of that decorationwhich in other lands church architecture always presents. Nowhere was to be seen here that cheerful develop-ment of forms to be found in the mother-country; no-where, even at a later period, on the summit of theslender tower the open gladsome finial, but, instead,everywhere on a broad basis the heavy roof, with a massyk
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