Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture Esque Architecture, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Romanesque architecture in Germany begins with Charlemagne. We find no buildings in that country older than his time except those which the ance Romans had left behind them. Charlemagne however was a great builder. Eginhardt his secretary and biographer says he repaired the churches throughout his dominions, but he gives no details. A book de aedificiis in the 8th century would have been very interesting, butE ginhardt was no Procopius, nor was Charlemagne a Justinian. Two buildings however, we are modestly told, seem not unworthy of mention, theM x-iabasilica of the most holy mother of God, constructed with ape ewondrous workmanship at A quisgranum, and a bridge over the Rhine atM oguntiacum1 This bridge atM ainz was only of wood, perhaps of boats, but the basilica at AIX-LA-CHAPELLE was a great work considering its age and situation. It was destined by Charlemagne to be also his tombhouse, and here he was in fact afterwards buried; seated on his throne, imperially robed, and with his sceptre in his hand and a copy of the gospels on his knee, as he was found when the tomb was opened in 1165. The splendour of this church, says Eginhardt, was the expression of his Christian devotion. He adorned it with 1E ginhardt, Vita Caroli Magni, cap. xvii. j. A. II.
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