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POINTED STYLE IN GERMANY.
Part II.

ously it was possible to misapply even the beautiful details of the early part of the 14th century. In St. Werner's Chapel, Bacharach, on the Rhine, this is avoided, and, as far as can be judged from the fragment that remains, it must, if it ever was completed, have been one

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523. View of Maria Kirche at Mulhausen. (From Puttrich, " Denkmäller.")
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524. Plan of Maria Kirche at Mulhausen. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.

of the best specimens of German art in that part of the country. The nave of the cathedral at Meissen, though marked by many of the faults of German design, is still a beautiful example of well-understood detail.

As a purely German design nothing can surpass the Maria Kirche at Mulhausen (Woodcut No. 524). The nave is nearly square, 87 ft.