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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 176 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_181.jpg |
| Transcript | Tl original state with the aid of Professor Wanderer1!; architectural and antiquarian skill. Reproductions ot Durer*! works are also kept here. The most saperficial acquaintance with Durer*! drawings will pared us for the sight of his simple, unpretentious house and .ts. In his " Birth ot he gives of the German home of his day, where then B super- tluous knick-knacks, but everything which sen daily use Wai well and strongly made and of good Ceilings, windows, doors and door-handles, chests, locks, erpots, the very cooking utensils, all betray the fine taste and skilled labour, the personal interest of the man who them. So in Durer's hou to-day, we can still see and admire the i -nplicity of domestic furniture, which distinguishes that in the " Birth of the Virgin." The coffers, the solid tables, tl - the well-fitting cabinets let into the walls, the wrought metal- work we see there are not luxurious; the (]uite other than that. In workmanship as in design, how utterly do they put to si of the ordinary u luxuriously furnished ap.irtments " of the nt day ! Simplex munditiis is the note struck here. The artists of those days gave themselves no they were content to regard themselves mc isful workmen. 'I hands tl the most splendid cathedral stalls wei< equal care on the n whilst the sim; tl tilled with the ambition to turn out work tr nicd at | tion, sharing in hi ! and triumphs, and hoping, no doubt, to produce himself. I ~() |