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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 72 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_082.jpg |
| Transcript | The Story of Nuremberg At the same time they took prisoner a robber-knight who was a friend of the Markgraf, and to procure his release the Markgraf promised to arrange peace for them with Hans von Geislingen. This he succeeded in doing. Gotz, however, remained at war, proud and obstinate in spite of all mediation. Again and again the League threatened war, the Emperor temporised, and Gotz plundered, until at last V milian got it arranged that Gotz should pay 14OOO florins damages. These were subscribed chiefly by his supporters, such as the Bishop of Wurzburg, who also persuaded him to cease from his career of robbery. Maximilian died in 1 519. He had shown himself a good friend to the Nuremberg artists. No doubt his patronage and his keen interest in art and literature had been partly responsible for the good work of this period. He was himself an author, for he had 1 considerable share in the Weisskun'ig and the 'Thcuer- danh—the latter, a poem which describes allegoricalIv the private life and ideals of the Emperor, being chiefly executed by Melchior Pfinzing, his secretary, the Provost of St. Sebald's and builder of the Parsonage. Of the artists, he frequently employed Peter Vischer and Veit Stoss, whilst he showed the greatest apj tion of Albert Durer, to whom he pension of IOO florins. When at Nuremberg in 1512 Maximilian with the aid of Willibald Pirkhcimer and Others, planned a colossal Hol%schnitt<werk, or wood-cut picture, "The Triumph," in which he himself as usual in the works of art he inspired, to be idealised as the greatest of princes. Durer was to draw pari of it. Ninety-two blocks did Durer design for the Triumphal Arch in the course of the next two Amongst other works for this patron we may mention The Triumphal Car, the Crucifixion, and the ornamental 72 |