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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 175 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_180.jpg |
| Transcript | Thi fid Cr Th it this system had faults, economically, is undeniable. That it produced good work and engendered in the craftsmen a personal interest and pride in their work, is equally certain. Among the craftsmen of Nuremberg in her golden age were Albert Durer, Peter Vise her, >ss, and a host of others eminent in their line. It was under the conditions we have sketched that they learned and laboured. Among the most treasured of Nuremberg's relics is the low-ceilingcd, gabled house near the Thiergartncr- thor, i ihirer lived and died, in the street now called after his name. The works of art which he presented to the town, or uith which he adorned its churches, have unfortunately, with but . been sold to the stranger. It is in Vienna and Munich, in Dresden and Berlin, in Florence, in Prague, or the British Museum, that we find splendid collections of Durer's works. Not at Nuremberg. But here at any rate we can see the house in which he toiled—no genius ever took more pains —and the surroundings which impressed his mind and influenced his inspiration. If, in the past, Nuremberg has been only too anxious to turn his cash, to-day she guards Albert Durer\ house with a care and reverence litde short of religious. She has sold, in the days of her f and foolishness, the master's pictures and dial which are his own best monument : but she has set up a noble monument to his memory (by Rauch, : in the Durer Platr, and his house is opened to the public (on pavment of 50 pfennige) between the hours ., and 2 ...- on week days. The AJbnrtvD has done admirable work fa restoring, and preserving the house in its |