Excerpt from Catalogue of the Paintings in the Old Pinakothek, Munich: With a Historical Introduction<br><br>Viewed in the light of thehl'3tory of art Bavaria, during the middle-ages, was decidedly behind the times. While, after the eleventh century, tithe: Rhenish countries and Saxony showed an active fostering of art with good results, and also the neighboring Ecclesiastical Principalites and Free Cities, like Wiirzburg and Bamberg, Ratisbon, Augsburg and Nurem berg, raised themselves to a relatively high grade, the towns of Bavaria, even those favored by ducal residence, remained in this respect miserably poor. This was particularly the case with Munich, where the Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian himself occupied an extremely inartistic palace. The Capital contained no building of distinction within its narrow limits until the erection of the frauen-kirche, 1468 - 1488. It was the same with Ingolstadt. Landshut alone was somewhat in ad vance, and could boast, not only of a notable mediaeval pa lace (the Trausnitz), but of the Church of St. Martin, which is in architectural respects decidedly superior to the Frauen Kirche of Munich. Still none of these churches with long and high~aisles, built in a style which did not appear until the end of the middle-ages, can be remotely compared with such a jewel as the late Romanic edifice at Bamberg, or with the Gothic Cathedral of Ratisbon.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.