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St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim, Ger. Nave of St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim, Ger., c. 1001–33.
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Church of Saint Michael

church, Hildesheim, Germany

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architecture

  • The Gero Crucifix, carved oak corpus (with contemporary nimbus and stem), before 986; in the Cologne Cathedral, Germany. Height 187 cm.
    In Ottonian art

    St. Michael’s (founded c. 1001), Hildesheim, exemplifies this regularity, with two crypts, two apses, and two transepts, each with a crossing tower. The achievements of Ottonian artists provided background and impetus for the new monumentality distinguished as Romanesque.

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  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: Ottonian period

    …1001 he founded the abbey church of St. Michael in his episcopal city of Hildesheim. At an earlier date (961) the margrave Gero had the church of St. Cyriacus built at Gernrode. The two churches have wooden-roofed, three-aisle naves; but, in contrast to the Carolingian pillar basilicas, alternating pillars and…

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