The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic Guild
Translated by Original English
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CHAPTER I THE GUILD OF THE COMACINE MASTERS
ROMANO-LOMBARD ARCHITECTS
THE GUILD OF THE COMACINE MASTERS
In looking back to the great church-building era, i. e. to the centuries between iioo and 1500, do not the questions arise in one’s mind, “How did all these great and noble buildings spring up simultaneously in all countries and all climates?” and “How comes it that in all cases they were similar to each other at similar times? ”
In the twelfth century, when the Italian buildings, such as the churches at Verona, Bergamo, Como, etc., were built with round arches, the German Domkirchen at Bonn, Mayence, Treves, Lubeck, Freiburg, etc. ; the French churches at Aix, Tournus, Caen, Dijon, etc. ; and the English cathedrals at Canterbury, Bristol, Chichester, St. Bartholomew’s in London — in fact, all those built at the same time — were not only round-arched, but had an almost identical style, and that style was Lombard.
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