Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 15
this church, says Eginhardt, was the ex-pression of his Christian devotion. He adorned it with ^ Eginhardt, Vita Caroli Magni, cap. xvii.J. A. II. I GERMAN ROMANESQUE [ch. xviii Aix-la-Chapelle ImitationofS.Vitale gold and silver, and lights, and with doors and screensof solid bronze. Hither he… … AIX-LA-CHAPCLLE. L„.l-„l- ^f ^ /o Fig. 63. |y letter^pttai^ j jrjtd and no one who has seen it and also the church atRavenna from which it is supposed to have been imitated,can doubt its foreign origin. Eginhardt tells us thatCharlemagne imported columns and marbles for the workfrom Ravenna and…
