History of art . Germany (xiv Century). Gate at Neubrandenburg. letter of the theological law had reigned two centuriesearlier and which for a hundred years presided over thesevere development of Romanesque architecture. When the German cities had associated themselvesto regulate the movement of all the treasures of Europe,the cloths of Flanders, the wines of France, the spicesof the Orient brought by ships to the mouth of theRhine and transported along its tributaries to thecenter and heart of the Teutonic continent, when byreason of the foreign war between the Papacy and the 362 MEDIAEVAL AR
History of art . Germany (xiv Century). Gate at Neubrandenburg. letter of the theological law had reigned two centuriesearlier and which for a hundred years presided over thesevere development of Romanesque architecture. When the German cities had associated themselvesto regulate the movement of all the treasures of Europe,the cloths of Flanders, the wines of France, the spicesof the Orient brought by ships to the mouth of theRhine and transported along its tributaries to thecenter and heart of the Teutonic continent, when byreason of the foreign war between the Papacy and the 362 MEDIAEVAL ART Empire, the currents of activity that circulated every-where had brought to all the cities workmen from theRhenish provinces, French image makers, wood carversfrom the Black Forest, and bronze workers that the. Germany (xiv Century). Rathaus of Stralsimd. honest and powerful Roman school of Bishop Bern-ward of Hildesheim had been educating for two cen-turies, a fertile mingling of all these confused forcesdeveloped in the German soil the revelation of its de-sires. To be exact, the process went on for a century. THE EXPANSION OF THE FRENCH IDEA 363 the thirteenth, during which the statue makers ofNaumburg, before they reverted to the comphcationand the honest sentimentahsm of German sculpture,
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