History of mediæval art . the twelfthin Aix-la-Chapelle and inKomburg. The greatest elab-oration in this branch was de-voted to the seven-armed can-delabra. The most magnifi-cent of these is that given tothe Collegiate Church of Es-sen by the abbess Mathilde,who died 1003. Theforms of this, as well as ofthose in the Cathedral ofBrunswick, St. Gangolf inBamberg, St. Bustorf of Pad-erborn, the Collegiate Churchof Klosterneuburg, and theCathedral of Prague, clearlyshow their derivation fromthe relief upon the Arch ofTitus in Rome. An improvement in the style of decoration is alsoevident in t
History of mediæval art . the twelfthin Aix-la-Chapelle and inKomburg. The greatest elab-oration in this branch was de-voted to the seven-armed can-delabra. The most magnifi-cent of these is that given tothe Collegiate Church of Es-sen by the abbess Mathilde,who died 1003. Theforms of this, as well as ofthose in the Cathedral ofBrunswick, St. Gangolf inBamberg, St. Bustorf of Pad-erborn, the Collegiate Churchof Klosterneuburg, and theCathedral of Prague, clearlyshow their derivation fromthe relief upon the Arch ofTitus in Rome. An improvement in the style of decoration is alsoevident in the Easter candlesticks, and, finally, in those for the can-dles used at the altar. These latter were almost exclusively ofcopper, ornamented chiefly at their base, either in gold and enamelor by intertwined animal forms {Fig. 281). The chalice and the paten, for the consecration and communionof the wine and wafer were, almost without exception, of preciousmetal, generally of gilded silver. The form of the chalice of Thas-. Fig. -Altar Candlestick at Klosterau onthe Inn. GERMANY. 461 silo, before described, was maintained until the end of the eleventhcentury; after that time the cup became wider, the handle beingadopted only in exceptional cases. The decoration, which had be-fore been exclusively of enamel, was now executed in relief, while thestyle of the ornamentation changed from the Byzantine to the Ro-manic. Less attention was devoted, during this period, to the am-pullae, or vessels for the sacrificial wine and water, than to the aqui-minalia, which contained the water for the washing of the hands—these usually representing animals, and being made either of copperor brass {Fig. 282). A great number of aquiminalia, of the most va-rious forms, have been collected in the Germanic museum of Nurem-
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