. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. AACHEN among historians that this statement refers to Italy especially,as up to this time the peninsula is usually assumed to have beenthe seat of architectural culture in the West. However, con-sidering the fact that Charlemagnes model was the ancient. III. 85. — Plan of Doni at Aachen. (From Dehio) church of S. ^itale and not contemporary Italian monuments,it may well be doubted whether he did not summon masonsfrom wherever he could find them, and not necessarily fromItaly exclusively. At all ev
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. AACHEN among historians that this statement refers to Italy especially,as up to this time the peninsula is usually assumed to have beenthe seat of architectural culture in the West. However, con-sidering the fact that Charlemagnes model was the ancient. III. 85. — Plan of Doni at Aachen. (From Dehio) church of S. ^itale and not contemporary Italian monuments,it may well be doubted whether he did not summon masonsfrom wherever he could find them, and not necessarily fromItaly exclusively. At all events, from this time on, the dependence of north-ern nations on Italy in matters architectural ceases. Inter-change of influence undoubtedly often took place, but northern 137 CAROLINGIAN ARCHITECTURE architecture was no longer a mere echo of Itahan ideas. InLombardy, almost simultaneously, there began to be notice-able a drift toward the formation of a national style. The stepstaken were hesitating, and there were many backslidings. Yetby the middle of the IX century there was progress, slight butdefinite, towards this goal. In the North the aimless drifting so characteristic of Caro-lingian architecture continued somewhat longer. Probably theachievement at Aachen actually worked against the formationof a national style. This exotic monum
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