. Architecture for general students. off thearched part of the doorway and form a circulartympanum. Here was displayed, especially in Ger-many, the best specimens of mediaeval sculpture, thesubjects being Christ enthroned among saints andangels, the Last Judgment, or something of similarimport. The columnar ornament was continuedalong the arch above, and this whole frame-workwas covered with linear and flower designs wrousfht into every conceivable varietyof form and fagade was further en-riched by the wheel-window,a circular window in whichthe sashes, frequently calledcusps, r
. Architecture for general students. off thearched part of the doorway and form a circulartympanum. Here was displayed, especially in Ger-many, the best specimens of mediaeval sculpture, thesubjects being Christ enthroned among saints andangels, the Last Judgment, or something of similarimport. The columnar ornament was continuedalong the arch above, and this whole frame-workwas covered with linear and flower designs wrousfht into every conceivable varietyof form and fagade was further en-riched by the wheel-window,a circular window in whichthe sashes, frequently calledcusps, radiate from the centre Wheel-window. 1 , • ^ . ^ ,, and termmate m the trefoilor similar forms. They are filled with stained glass,and add no little to the richness and beauty bothof the exterior and interior in this style, but moreespecially in the Gothic. In these general features the Romanesque archi-tecture of all countries for the most part agreedbut in others, as before mentioned, it widely differedin different Romanesque Architecture. 137 Italian Romanesque. — Among the Italians, andespecially at Rome, lingered the love of classic art;and therefore no edifice differing in form from thebasilica, was erected in the old capital until the lat-ter part of the thirteenth century. The erectionat Pisa of the remarkable group of buildings whichnow forms the most attractive feature of that city,gave a new and independent form to church archi-tecture in The Cathedral, Baptistery,Campanile, and Campo Santo are by different artists,and yet each — in the rare and successful combina-tion of light and delicate ornament with* noble andenduring material, in enchanting grace and airinessunited with firmness and solidity — proves its archi-tect possessed of superior genius. Looking up tothe lofty leaning tower profiled against the clearblue sky, when the morning sunlight glints theslender columns of its balconies, or turning to thesparkling dome of the Baptist
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