Word: augsburg
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...important additions to the collection of mediaeval German sculpture have recently been installed in the Germanic Museum. These are full-sized reproductions of the bronze gates of the Augsburg Cathedral and of the crucifixion group from the church of Wechselburg, in Saxony. The former belong to the middle of the eleventh century, and are important evidence of the progress of technique in German plastic art after its beginnings in the Hildesheim School. There are altogether thirty-five panels, each of them containing some symbolical representation of Christian doctrine. The cast was bought partly with money given by the Germanic Department...
...museum, one of which is the cast of the crucifixion from the same church in Wechselburg. The piece, which is about 15 feet high, will be put at the entrance of one of the south alcoves. The other piece is a cast of the portal of the Cathedral of Augsburg in Germany, and will be built into the wall of the museum at the right of the main entrance...
...monuments of mediaevel scupture, is an imposing and massive structure, some fifteen feet high, resting on Romanesque columns and richly adorned with high reliefs of singular power and beauty. Together with the colossal Crucifixion group from the Rood Screen of the same church and the monumental bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, which the Germanic Museum has just acquired, this gift of the King of Saxony is a highly important illustration of the remarkable state of perfection reached by German sculpture at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century...