THE  BAROQUE  IN   ROMAN   CATHOLIC   COUNTRIES   C.   l6oO-£.   1760
marble hall and the library, jut forward to its right and left con-
verging as they approach the front bastion. They are here connected
by lower roughly semicircular wings. Between these, exactly in
line with the church, is an oddly Palladian arch to keep the vista
open from the west portal towards the river. It is an exquisite
piece of visual calculation—a late and subtle development of
Palladio's so much simpler connecting of villa and landscape, and

74.     PLAN FOR THE REBUILDING OF THE MONASTERY OF WEINGARTEN, 1723.
evidently the work of the century which discovered landscape
gardening (seep. 184).
But, to return to our question, while the towering church on the
cliff—a Durham of the Baroque—may be rightly considered a
monument of militant Catholicism, the palaces for abbot and monks
with their richly ornamented saloons and their terraces are amenities
of this world, on exactly the same level, and planned and executed
in exactly the same lavish manner, as the contemporary palaces of
the secular and clerical rulers of the innumerable states of the Holy
Roman Empire or the country palaces of the English aristocracy,
or Caserta, the palace of the King of Naples, or Stupinigi, the palace
of the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia.
One of the most irresponsible of these schemes is the Zwinger
in Dresden, built by Mathaus Daniel Poppelmann (1662-1736) for
the Elector Augustus the Strong, athlete, gluttbn and lecher. The
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