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Posted: 09 Apr 2022

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Goethe In Strasbourg in 1770, from a print of 1870
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Goethe’s little pamphlet on Strasbourg Cathedral, “Von Deutscher Baukunst,” “On German Architecture” -- has first separately published work -- was inspirational, influential and in one key respect wrong. Usually for his time, he could see that the myriad, apparently confused details of the Gothic façade, were in fact animated by a coherent aesthetic dynamic. But he conceived himself (he was not alone) that this Gothic archictrue, which we now know to be in origin French, was quintessentially, triumphantly, German. . . . Page 69
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 Dinesh
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Germany ~ Memories of a Nation
2 years ago.