tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142841714418512823.post6435928441952681132..comments2024-03-12T18:36:35.003-05:00Comments on Catholic Architecture and History of Toledo, Ohio: Quite a FindJeffrey Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05227411938775535934noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142841714418512823.post-12019095685477938162008-01-28T05:31:00.000-05:002008-01-28T05:31:00.000-05:00Anyone been inside to see if it's still there?St. ...Anyone been inside to see if it's still there?<BR/>St. Vincent's was bound to stress the arts. Back then, most of the monks were direct from Bavaria, where a flowering of church design was taking place. They even have a big, and tolerable, art collection, since King Ludwig I kept sending them pictures.<BR/>If you look closely, Kolb's altar is rather simple, and the sort of thing a serious ameteur could make. Just had to buy the statuary and the tabernacle doors.Jeffrey Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05227411938775535934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142841714418512823.post-21448673781774701482008-01-27T22:43:00.000-05:002008-01-27T22:43:00.000-05:00A few things to add, since I've had a chance to lo...A few things to add, since I've had a chance to look at the book in more detail:<BR/>--It makes more sense now that Fr. T.M. Kolb may have built altars for his churches, as his obituary says he went to St. Vincent's Benedictine college, and this book notes that all were required to take art classes.<BR/>--A Wood Co. history from 1897 says that St. Louis in Custar has work by F.X. Hefele, of Cincinnati, a graduate of the Academy of Painting, in Munich.Kevin Hammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16947339190946199446noreply@blogger.com