Word: gothically
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...have sat and read and writhed in its swivel seats, or waited while its alleged contents were sought form the cellar of Appleton or the garret of Conant, will pause to breathe the respectful sigh due its venerable three quarters of a century of existence. And thus passes Gothic Gore, former abode of ecumenic erudition and draughty discomfort...
...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...
...that the Government of Rhenish Prussia, at the suggestion of Professor Clemen of the University of Bonn, former exchange professor in the University has decided to give to the Germanic Museum a collection of casts of the finest and most representative works of Rhenish sculpture from the Romanesque, the Gothic and the Renaissance periods. The collection will include among other monuments a richly ornamented portal of Treves Cathedral, the Romanesque portal of the Church of Our Lady at Andernach, choir screens from the Church of St. Maria in the capitol at Cologne, finely carved choir stalls from Xanten and Oberwesel...
...Bamberg sculptures, the smaller portal of the Church of Our Lady at Treves. At its further end, raised a few steps above the floor level, there will be placed the Golden Gate of Freiberg Cathedral, in such a manner as to form the entrance to the next hall, the Gothic...
...Gothic Hall consists of the square space beneath the tower, resembling the crossing of a church, and a choir separated from the crossing by the rood-screen of Naumburg Cathedral, so that this important monument of the transition period from Romanesque to Gothic sculpture will have the same relative place in our building which the original has at Naumburg. The other Naumburg sculptures, the twelve remarkable portrait statues of princely founders, will be placed in the choir, also in accordance with their original positions. The further development of Gothic sculpture down to the 15th...