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Bk. IV. Ch. IV. CONVENTUAL BUILDINGS. 49 The best collection of examples of German convents is found in Boissei-ee's "Nieder Rhein." But neither those of St. Gereon nor of the Apostles, nor St. Pantaleone at Cologne, merit attention as works of art, though they are certainly curious as historical monuments; and the lateral galleries of Sta. Maria in the Capitol are even inferior in design : their resemblance, however, to the style of Ravenna gives >1^^-xV^ 500. Cloister at Zurich. (From Cliapuy, " Moyen-Age Monumental.") them some value archaeologically. The same remarks apply to the cloisters at Heisterbach, and even to the more elegant transitional buildings at Altenburg. Almost all these examples, nevertheless, possess some elegant capitals and some parts worthy of study; but they are badly put together and badly used, so that the pleasing effect of a cloistered court and conventual buildings is here almost entirely VOL. II. — -^