A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . j had elajjsed between the two events ; butit is now an acknowledged fact that the catlie-dral is French as to its general arrangement,and the earliest portion of it a direct copy fromthe cathedral of Amiens. In fact the chevetand radiating chapels are almost identical in thetwo buildings, and as Amiens was commencedin 1220 and Cologne in 1248, to Robert deLiizarches must be given the creilit for the was far advanced in 1269, because thatdate occurs in the stained glass of the clearstorywindows,
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . j had elajjsed between the two events ; butit is now an acknowledged fact that the catlie-dral is French as to its general arrangement,and the earliest portion of it a direct copy fromthe cathedral of Amiens. In fact the chevetand radiating chapels are almost identical in thetwo buildings, and as Amiens was commencedin 1220 and Cologne in 1248, to Robert deLiizarches must be given the creilit for the was far advanced in 1269, because thatdate occurs in the stained glass of the clearstorywindows, and (according to Viollet-le-Duc) theexterior was quite completed in 1288; at Co-logne, on the other hand, the choir alone wasnot finished until 1322. Cologne cathedral had such an importantinfluence on German architecture that we nmstattempt to realize exactly how fiir it was a cojiyof Amiens, and in what particulars the Germanarchitects departed from theirFrench original. Kugler andother \\Titers tell us that Ger-hard erected the whole of theiwer portions of the apse, but GERMANY.
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