Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . re are mostlyabominations. The makers of sweet musicevidently thought that any heavy baroquecombination of wood-carving and leadenpipes was good enough so long as the flowof melody was uninterrupted. The stained glass throughout the Rhinevalley is mostly good and unusually abun-dant, and the freedom of this accessory fromfanatical desecration is most apparent. Thesame is true of such paintings as are foundhung in the churches, though seldom havethey great names attached to them; at least,not so great as would mark them for dis-tinction were they hung in a
Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine . re are mostlyabominations. The makers of sweet musicevidently thought that any heavy baroquecombination of wood-carving and leadenpipes was good enough so long as the flowof melody was uninterrupted. The stained glass throughout the Rhinevalley is mostly good and unusually abun-dant, and the freedom of this accessory fromfanatical desecration is most apparent. Thesame is true of such paintings as are foundhung in the churches, though seldom havethey great names attached to them; at least,not so great as would mark them for dis-tinction were they hung in any of the leadingpicture galleries of Europe. At Essen the baptistery is separated fromthe main church, like that at Ravenna, or atAix-en-Provence, the two foremost examplesof their kind. A little to the westward ofthis minster, and joined to it by a Roman-esque ligature, is a three-bayed Gothic 65 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine church which occupies the site, or was builtup from a former chapel dedicated to the
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