History of art . Germany (xiv Century). Rathaus of Stralsimd. honest and powerful Roman school of Bishop Bern-ward of Hildesheim had been educating for two cen-turies, a fertile mingling of all these confused forcesdeveloped in the German soil the revelation of its de-sires. To be exact, the process went on for a century. THE EXPANSION OF THE FRENCH IDEA 363 the thirteenth, during which the statue makers ofNaumburg, before they reverted to the comphcationand the honest sentimentahsm of German sculpture,. Germany (xiv Century). Cathedral of Ulm. made a vigorous effort in the direction of the mo
History of art . Germany (xiv Century). Rathaus of Stralsimd. honest and powerful Roman school of Bishop Bern-ward of Hildesheim had been educating for two cen-turies, a fertile mingling of all these confused forcesdeveloped in the German soil the revelation of its de-sires. To be exact, the process went on for a century. THE EXPANSION OF THE FRENCH IDEA 363 the thirteenth, during which the statue makers ofNaumburg, before they reverted to the comphcationand the honest sentimentahsm of German sculpture,. Germany (xiv Century). Cathedral of Ulm. made a vigorous effort in the direction of the monu-mental style whose qualities of love, strength, and sim-plicity the masters of Rheims were at that momentrevealing to France and to the world. But this cen- 364 MEDIAEVAL ART tury sufficed to define the dominating tendencies ofGothic-building in Germany before the mind of theworkman in the industrial cities had seized upon itand developed in it, with meticulous ingenuity andpatience, the complications which, while it all con-tributed to lead architecture away from its true func-tion, prepared Germany for the Renaissance by indi-vidualizing little by little its industries and crafts. Beside the cathedrals of our northern provinces,square to the very base of their towers, established sopowerfully on their horizontal lines and deriving allthe elements of their incomparable lyrism from thelife about them and from the need to fulfill a definitepurpose, the German cathedral is subjective and con-fes
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