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view. The church is built in the style of the 11th and 12th centuries, which 
is preserved throughout in its strictest purity. A high middle aisle is accom- 
panied by two lower side aisles, and is lighted by little semicircularly 
arched windows. The interior contains broad pillars, between which arches 
are sprung supporting vaults. The main nave is separated from the side 
aisles by arcades which support galleries. The arches and domes are richly 
painted in fresco, and are well lighted by the front windows of the nave. 
2. Taz Cxaurce or Mary tHe Hetrer mw tHe Favsoure Av In 
Mocnicu. This church was designed and executed by the architect D. J. 
Ohlmiller. Pl. 49, fig. 8, represents the inner view. The church, of which 
the German style of the 13th century is the basis, consists of three aisles 
equally high; the side aisles are half as wide as the main aisle. The ribs 
of the vaults are artistically arranged, and the nineteen windows are covered 
with very. beautiful glass painting. The facade has a chief tower with a 
perforated pyramid, and two small contiguous towers upon the corner pillars. 
A gallery extends around the roof between the pyramidal turrets which 
crown the buttresses. The church has no transept, and the end of the choir 
is semicircular. The church was completed in 1831. 
3. Tae Basmica Sr. Bontrace in Municu (pl. 46, jig. 9) was designed 
by the architect Ziebland, and beautifully painted in fresco by Henry Hess. 
On the 12th Oct., 1835, the corner stone of this basilica was laid, and in 
1840 the building was so far completed that the fresco paintings could be 
commenced, and -they were finished in 1844. The church, in which pre- 
vails the old basilica style, forms a long rectangle with four colonnades, five 
aisles, and a semicircular vaulted apsis. In the interior there are sixty-six 
disengaged columns in four rows. The columns of the middle aisle are 
connected by round arches, upon which rests the high wall of this aisle, con- 
taining the windows. The main walls, with the exception of some arch 
frames, are built of bricks in their natural color. The middle aisle is 262 feet 
long, 52 broad, and 83 feet high to the entablature. The framework of the 
roof is entirely uncovered, and the blue surface of the roof painted with gold 
stars is visible through it. Each of the side aisles is 18 feet broad, and 44 feet 
high, so that the whole breadth of the church is 124 feet. The columns are 
25 feet high, and each consists of one block of grey marble, but the capitals 
of white marble, upon which are carved vines and ears of grain as allegori- 
cal representations of the wine and bread of the Last Supper. All the paint- 
ings with which the walls of the middle aisle, the wall of the choir, and the 
choir niches are covered, were executed after cartoons of the artist Henry 
Hess, and under his direction. They are frescoes upon a gold ground, and 
represent partly scenes from the life of St. Boniface, partly the propagation 
of Christianity, or finally are portraits of saints and popes. 
4. Toe Parish anp Untversiry Cuurcu or Sr. Louis m Montcu. 
This church was designed and built by Fr. v. Gartner in the style of 
the 14th century, and painted in fresco by Peter v. Cornelius. PJ. 50, 
jig. 2, represents the exterior perspective view of this church, which con- 
sists of three aisles, and has an open portico in front between the towers. 
The church and towers are of red brick, coated with a cement imitating 
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