Toon Bulletin KNOB 90 (1991) 1

C. Peeters: Geografie van de romaanse architectuur. T.A S.M. Panhuysen: De Sint-Servaaskerk te Maastricht in de vroege middeleeuwen.

Gepubliceerd: 1991-02-01

Artikelen

  • The publication of the fourth volume of Romanische Baukunst am Rhein und Maas (Romanesque architecture on Rhine and Meuse) by Hans Erich Kubach and Albert Verbeek invites to a consideration which exceeds review limitations, for this volume is dedicated to Architekturgeschichte und Kunstlandschaft (History of Architecture and Geography of Art) and is the product of an implicit method, which varies on the classification of works of art based on geographical unities. This sort of classification is being practiced in German art-historical circles since the turn of the...

  • Till recently only very concise sources revealed something on the previous collegiate, now parish church of St. Servatius' predecessors. Thus Gregorius of Tours (538/9-594/5) mentions a wooden tomb house on the site of the grave of Bishop Servatius (departed about 380) and, to Servatius' honour, the erection of a templum magnum by Bishop Monulf in the second half of the 6th century. During the 9th century the Gesta sanctorum patrum Fontanellensis coenobii describe a monastery 'beati Servatii', to which Abbot Wando from Saint-Wandrille has been exiled in 719....