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Medieval Art & Architecture in Saxony

The Courtauld Institute & Harvard University Doctoral Students Trip, 2007

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Day 6 - Wechselburg, Geithain & Rochlitz

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Kloster Wechselburg - 12th century Benedictine Monastery

Approach to the church
Approach to the church - note kloster gatehouse to right
View of nave from western end

The famous rood and Calvary group
Calvary group
Calvary group

Central section of rood screen
Majestas group
Majestas group with Abel and Cain in spandrels

Adam and Domitian (?)
St John the Evangelist trampling Domitian
Central Calvary group

Pier base
Northeast crossing pier
Northeast crossing pier from west

Vaults over crossing and choir
Vaults over nave
Choir

View into choir/apse from crossing
Choir and apse
Transept
     

Geithain - Sankt Nikolaus

Sankt Nikolaus - view from western gallery
Sankt Nikolaus - view from west
Sankt Nikolaus - view of ceiling

Capital with unused springers for net vault
Capital with unused springers for net vault
Capital with unused springers for net vault
     

Rochlitz (Kunigundenkirche, Schloss & Petrikirche)

Kunigundenkirche
South portal
playful blind tracery

playful blind tracery
South portal
South portal - buttress detail

Angels on the ogival gable
Angels on the ogival gable
Holy Face in tympanum

String-course stop
String-course stop with lute
String-course stop - donor with church ?

'Hand' corbel
Face corbel
St Veronica holding the sudarium ?

String-course stop; beadsman
The rather more restrained north portal
Decorated door case on the Petrikirche

Rochlitz Schloss - view from river bank
Rochlitz Schloss - chapel
Rochlitz Schloss - chapel

Rochlitz Schloss - chapel window detail
Rochlitz Schloss - windows
Rochlitz Schloss - window