Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 286
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 J … III. 85. — Plan of Dom at Aachen. (From Dehio) church of S. Vitale 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…
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