24, history student, Catholic convert, northwesterner, nerd. I like: The X-Files, 30 Rock, Spaced, Arrested Development, medieval history, art and iconography, ecclesiastical architecture, children's literature, Catholic novels, and all kinds of books.

The Augsburger Dom: exterior, view down the nave, western choir, the crypt, detail of a Romanesque fresco, late medieval fresco, the Circumcision of Christ by Hans Holbein the Elder (!), altar from I don’t know when, the oldest pictorial stained glass in Europe, and the southwest portal.

It was Baroque-d in the middle of its Gothic and neo-Gothic periods, so when Pope Pius VI visited, it wouldn’t have looked quite like this…

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    Lovely. Although I really wish they did not update cathedrals in 99% of the cases. Baroque is fine and dandy, but guys...
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    Lovely. Although I really wish they did not update cathedrals in 99% of the cases. Baroque is fine and dandy, but guys...
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