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735. Cloister at Zurich. (From Chapuy, * Moyen-Àge Monumental.')
necessarily the case, but in the Middle Ages it certainly was, that as
the one advanced nearer to perfection, the other declined in almost an
equal degree.
The best collection of examples of German cloisters is found in
Boisserée’s ‘ Nieder Rhein.’ But neither those of St. Gereon nor of
the Apostles, nor St. Pantaleone at Cologne, merit attention as works
260 DOMESTIC ARCHITECTUEE. Part II.
though the execution is rude. The same is the case with the sculp-
tures of the portal ; for though they display even less classical feeling,
they show an exuberance of fancy and a boldness of handling which
we miss entirely in the succeeding ages, when the art yielded to make
way for mere architectural mouldings, as if the two coulcl not exist
together. The example of Greece forbids us to believe that such is
necessarily the case, but in the Middle Ages it certainly was, that as
the one advanced nearer to perfection, the other declined in almost an
equal degree.
The best collection of examples of German cloisters is found in
Boisserée’s ‘ Nieder Rhein.’ But neither those of St. Gereon nor of
the Apostles, nor St. Pantaleone at Cologne, merit attention as works
260 DOMESTIC ARCHITECTUEE. Part II.
though the execution is rude. The same is the case with the sculp-
tures of the portal ; for though they display even less classical feeling,
they show an exuberance of fancy and a boldness of handling which
we miss entirely in the succeeding ages, when the art yielded to make
way for mere architectural mouldings, as if the two coulcl not exist
together. The example of Greece forbids us to believe that such is