1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
The classical revival does not seem to have taken root in Germany much before the middle of the i6th century, some forty to fifty years later than in France, from which country it is said to have been introduced, and in some of the early work there is a great similarity to French examples, but without the refinement and variety of detail which one finds in the chateaux of the Loire and in many of the French towns. In the rood-screen of the cathedral at Hildesheim (1546), the court of the town hall at Gorlitz (1534)…
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- Vol. 2, pp. 420-420