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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 183 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_187.jpg |
| Transcript | fl Art \ ■ Crafts earliest works show the influence of the Flemish School in full vigour. It was in t he married the widow of Hans Plcydenwurf, a painter of some reputation, and in his house, beneath the old Castle, proceeded to carrv on the in W olgemut and Pleydenwurf. From this workshop all the principal painting! of - period would seem to have issued. It is extremely difficult to de mow far the pictures that have hitherto passed under the name of are really bta, The master has certainly failed as a rule to stamp his own personality on his works. This is no doubt due in great part to the fact that he much of each picture to be done by his pupils and assistanta. The ok a frankly business view of their handiwork. The amount of personal atten- iel Wolgemut gave to a picture probably varied with the It is unfortunate that Durer in many cases followed the same custom. He found that his careful and elaborate style of painting was ly beggaring him, and he frequen- tore allowed bis paintings to be finished by his assistants. common characteristics of the Plevdcnwurf- Wolj vhool soon impress themselves on us as we study thei. '..scum, or the Chi. 'ohn, and drapery is stiffly drawn but the colouring id brilliant. The modelling of the limbs, not founded on Durer's close studies of nude, still leaves much to be desired. eful, but on closer acquaintance find it soulless and unsatisfying. The prominent cb« ^°ne \presston of almond-shaped , thin lips and lifeless mouths produce an impression the almost painful »nte | irer'spo Oral osc an increasing sever |