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...feet on Divinity avenue and Frisble place. The main entrance is from Kirkland street, opening into a lower vestibule, with office-rooms on each side. Beyond a small rotunda is the Romanesque Hall, about 70 feet long, which will contain, among other valuable parts of the collection, the collosal Bernward Column. From the farther end of the Romanesque Hall an entrance leads into the Gothic Hall...
...system of pillars supporting the vaulted ceiling of this hall, alcoves are formed on both of its sides, increasing its wall space and giving ample opportunity for placing properly the many specimens of early mediaeval art in our possession. This hall will contain, among other notable works, the colossal Bernward Column and the bronze gates of Hildesheim Cathedral, the bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, the pulpit and the Crucifixion group of Wechselburg, the choir screen of St. Michael's at Hildesheim, the Bamberg sculptures, the smaller portal of the Church of Our Lady at Treves. At its further end, raised...
...Museum by Arthur P. Schmidt of Boston; baptismal font from the Cathedral at Hildesheim, twelfth century; model of a boat dating from the fifth century, the original of which was found in the Mydam Moor, and which is now in the Museum at Kiel; the so-called Bernward Column from the Cathedral of Innsbruck, richly carved with scenes from the life of Christ; three cases of bronze plaquettes by Peter Floetua dating from the sixteenth century; the Auerbach collection of plaquettes from the Museum of Basle, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The walls of the building are hung...
...plaster casts of German works of art which Professor Francke, during his trip in Europe, bought for the Germanic Museum, are now arriving at Cambridge in successive shipments. The collection includes copies of the Bernward Column from Hildesheim Cathedral, the Choir Screen of St.Michael's at Hildesheim, various figures from the tomb of Emperor Maximilian at luns-bruck, the Statue of Emperor Henry II in Bamberg Cathedral, and other reproductions from works of German mediaeval and renaissance art. The collection will occupy the entire side aisle of the museum...
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