Saxony 2007 - Medieval Art & Architecture - Wechselburg-Geithain-Rochlitz

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Medieval Art & Architecture in Saxony

The Courtauld Institute & Harvard University Doctoral Students Trip, 2007

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

Kloster Wechselburg - 12th century Benedictine Monastery