History of mediæval art . orthy part of the building is the portal of the southern side,profusely decorated with sculptures, and the entrance of the north- GERMANY. 279 ern cloister, ornamented with Germanic and Celtic chevrons. Theartistic activity of the south-eastern districts of Germany was in themain dependent upon that of Ratisbon. In Freising, only the cryptof the Cathedral, remarkable for its fantastically decorated piers,dates to this period. Ecclesiastical edifices with columns were rarebetween the Lech and Salzach rivers; only the Parish Church ofReichenhall has columns alternating
History of mediæval art . orthy part of the building is the portal of the southern side,profusely decorated with sculptures, and the entrance of the north- GERMANY. 279 ern cloister, ornamented with Germanic and Celtic chevrons. Theartistic activity of the south-eastern districts of Germany was in themain dependent upon that of Ratisbon. In Freising, only the cryptof the Cathedral, remarkable for its fantastically decorated piers,dates to this period. Ecclesiastical edifices with columns were rarebetween the Lech and Salzach rivers; only the Parish Church ofReichenhall has columns alternating with the piers, while a dupli-cation of the round shafts between the square supports is exhibitedby the Romanic basilica of St. Peter in Salzburg, which, althoughdating to the twelfth century, was originally constructed with ahorizontal ceiling of wood. In this town is the cloister of the con-vent Nonnberg, referable to the eleventh century, and certainly theoldest known structure of the kind in Germany. A dactylic alter-. Fig. 159.—Plan of the Cathedral of Gurk. nation of columns and piers, like that in the Church of St. Peterin Salzburg, appears, farther to the east, in the Convent Churchof Sekkau in Upper Styria. The Basilica of Gurk {Fig. 159), andthat of St. Paul in the Valley of the Lavant, both originally pro-vided with timbered ceilings, have piers in the interior. The lastthree churches are not older than the twelfth century. The onlymemorial of the earliest Romanic period in Bohemia is the Churchof St. George in Prague, built in the eleventh century, and remark-able for its heavy and awkward forms. The Romanic reconstruction of the Cathedral of Augsburg,which occupied the site of a basilica antedating the Carolingianepoch, was carried out between 991 and 1077, and exhibits a hori-zontal ceiling and piers. The influence of this city in the south-western provinces of Germany was less important than that of St. 28o ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. Gall. In Southern Suabia, and e
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