Köln-Deutz and Romanesque Architecture
Barrie Singleton
The three greatest German buildings of the first half eleventh century were an ambition not to be found elsewhere in contemporary Europe and modelled directly on Roman Imperial prototypes. They demonstrate a new grandeur spirit that is typical architecture time, but their precise forms, remarkably enough, they remained unique country. Archbishop Heribert's huge rotunda at Deutz was partly inspired by Pantheon, since Heribert had been Otto III's chief politician Italian Chancellor for previous six years building important monument political policy ‘Renovatio Imperii Romanorum’. re-creation these other represent essentially Romanesque call them anything else do justice. idea Ottonian style has helpful.
Journal of the British Archaeological Association