Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Q!i. *&C?^-» LORSCH CH. xviii] GERMAN ROMANESQUE 7 lights, probably insertions. Above at the eaves is a good Lorschplain modillion cornice (Fig. 67), which once was returnedon the end walls and ramped into a pediment, though onlythe starting already mentioned now remains. The wallsbetween the columns are of red stone chequered withwhite. It is an extremely curious little building, showingin the execution of the carving; ^^kill and knowledgesuperior to the local talent of the Germany of those days,and betraying a Byzantine, or Italo-Byzantine hand; but Be


Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Q!i. *&C?^-» LORSCH CH. xviii] GERMAN ROMANESQUE 7 lights, probably insertions. Above at the eaves is a good Lorschplain modillion cornice (Fig. 67), which once was returnedon the end walls and ramped into a pediment, though onlythe starting already mentioned now remains. The wallsbetween the columns are of red stone chequered withwhite. It is an extremely curious little building, showingin the execution of the carving; ^^kill and knowledgesuperior to the local talent of the Germany of those days,and betraying a Byzantine, or Italo-Byzantine hand; but Betrays , 1 • r 1 1 rr • Southern the strange design of the upper storey shows no artinity influencewith the art of the Exarchate or the East. Rivoiramaintains that it is not a Carlovingian building at


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