History of mediæval art . Uii U ii li .* Fig. 142.—System of Fig. 143.—System of the Col- Fig. 144.—System of the Col- the Cloister Church legiate Church of Gern- legiate Church of St. Mi- of Paulinzelle. rode. chael, Hildesheim. character to a base, serving for the capital, as in Poetnitz, near Des-sau. Although the poverty of ideas is unpleasantly felt, a certainconstructive logic cannot be denied to this duplication. In the crypts columns are almost exclusively employed for thesupports; in the superstructure, on the other hand, piers were fre- GERMANY. 263 quently introduced {Fig. 142). Eve
History of mediæval art . Uii U ii li .* Fig. 142.—System of Fig. 143.—System of the Col- Fig. 144.—System of the Col- the Cloister Church legiate Church of Gern- legiate Church of St. Mi- of Paulinzelle. rode. chael, Hildesheim. character to a base, serving for the capital, as in Poetnitz, near Des-sau. Although the poverty of ideas is unpleasantly felt, a certainconstructive logic cannot be denied to this duplication. In the crypts columns are almost exclusively employed for thesupports; in the superstructure, on the other hand, piers were fre- GERMANY. 263 quently introduced {Fig. 142). Even in the earliest Saxon worksthe supports which divide the nave from the side isles frequentlyexhibit an effective alternation of square piers with round in the construction of the early Christian basilica many at-tempts had been made to relieve the columns from a portion of i^jg^E^^f.
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