Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 267
towns. The building offine churches, cloisters, and palaces was notpossible in these times of general distress.Art was even more neglected than it hadbeen under the last Merovingians, and for aperiod longer than that before the accessionof Charlemagne, for the establishment of theGerman monarchy… … Fig, 122.—Capital and Im-post from the WesternWing of the CloisterChurch of Corvey. The Germanic races had no sculpture of their own at the timewhen they were first brought into contact with the Romans. Thehideous puppet-like idols which appeared here and there do notdeserve to be classed among…
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