Identifier: historyofallnati08wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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used entire sections of buildings to be transportedacross the Alps, in order to use them in the edifices which he wasrearing in the north. The palaces of Rome and Ravenna in particu-lar had to supply many pieces of ornamentation for the residencesof the Carolingian kings. Such royal seats were built at Aix-la-Chapelle, Nimwegen, Diedenhofen, and Heristal (which was theancient home of the Carolingian family) ; also on the Rhine, at In-gelheim and Worms. None of these structures have left any remainsworth mentioning. We have, indeed, contemporary accounts of thefamous palace at Aix; but it may be questioned whether these re-flect the reality, or merely give a splendid picture the original ofwhich existed only in the poets imagination, influenced by recollec-tions from antiquity (Fig. 51). Under these circumstances we can form only a very generalidea of those famous Carolingian palaces. It would seem, however,that, although the local conditions existing in each case were taken PLATE XIV.
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Painting in a Missal ^A^ritten in golden letters. The central figure is that of Pope Gregory I. Example of the paintings in Carolingian ecclesias-tical manuscripts of the ninth century. Paris, National Library. (From Bastard.) History of All Kations, Vol. VIIL, page 20ß. ARCHITECTURE. 203 into account, the structures regularly possessed certain commonfeatures which can be perceived in the general plan of the whole.Although in the couise of time the distinctively palatial character of

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