Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . times onward, there was here a colony of arti-sans who had been sent from Lombardy onaccount of the increased interest in the northin church-building. If this is so, they musthave pushed onward down the Rhine, as theyleft but little impression here, and, whileRhenish church-building was manifestly notGothic in its inception, here at Strasburg thereare certainly no evidences of the Comacinebuilders of Charlemagnes time. Strasburgs ancient episcopal palace wasbuilt in 1731 -41 by Cardinal de Rohan. Itwas bought by the city before the Revolutionand transform
Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . times onward, there was here a colony of arti-sans who had been sent from Lombardy onaccount of the increased interest in the northin church-building. If this is so, they musthave pushed onward down the Rhine, as theyleft but little impression here, and, whileRhenish church-building was manifestly notGothic in its inception, here at Strasburg thereare certainly no evidences of the Comacinebuilders of Charlemagnes time. Strasburgs ancient episcopal palace wasbuilt in 1731 -41 by Cardinal de Rohan. Itwas bought by the city before the Revolutionand transformed into a chateau imperial, andbecame later the home of the local univer-sity. The edifice known in early days as the Maison de IOeuvre Notre Dame, and morerecently as Stift zu unser lieben Frauen,was built in 1581, numerous Gothic sculptures 112 I» Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine from the cathedral being used in its construc-tion. There is here a remarkable spiral stair-case in the light and delicate flowered Gothicof its 113 X METZ From across the Moselle, on the height justto the south of the city of Metz, is to be hadone of those widely spread panoramas whichdefy the artist or the photographer to repro-duce. There is an old French saying that theRhine had power; the Rhone impetuosity;the Loire nobility; and the Moselle eleganceand grace. This last is well shown in thecharming river-bottom which spreads itselfabout the ancient Mediomatricorum, as Metzwas known to the Romans. The enormously tall nave and transepts ofthe cathedral of Metz dominate every otherstructure in the city, in a fashion quite in keep-ing with the strategic importance of the placefrom a military point of view. Time was when ecclesiastical affairs andmilitary matters were much more closely al-lied than now, and certainly if there was any 114 §^ ^
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