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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 188 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_192.jpg |
| Transcript | The st Nuremberg co|'i ! : this purpose he turned to account his fiy studies of Nuremberg scenery and his charming d\ . N^ emberg, the Pegnitz, and the houses to which 1 of his works soon followed OH and proved his popularity. Literary piracy, it will be seen, if not actable, is at any rate of some antiquity. M was bus)' painting the portraits oi members ot families, of his father, of him- must not seek in Nuremberg, but an example inting at I period (circa 1500), is to be found in the Pieta, now in the (German Museum. In painting, it was Durer's rule to deal onlv with sacred subjects or port: The much damaged and inferior wot . des with Stymphalian Birds," in the same museum fol an inte: tMM to this rule. But in avings Durer did not confine himself to any one fttCCt2 sacred and secular history, mytholo sassa, tassTe, humour, architecture, land and water ; eat portraits, all formed material for his receptive and strenuous mind. His humour ID • idicd in his designs for Maximilin k of Hours," and there, too, his mordant satire lashes the fault- women and thegaucheries ot proud and foolish petsai We ha\e already bad oocasi 1 to the circle in which Durer moved in th ; but special mention should here be made ot Willibald Pirkhcimer, his great friend and patron, the most generous M of sciences and art in Nurem Scholar and states- m in, writer, orator, and soldier, his house and splendid library in the Herrenmarkt was the centre of intellectual activity in (rennaii], sod the chk the 1 ill m I., Com nus Hesse, Luther and Melanchthon, and especially Ulrich \on Hutten and Durer were among his most favoured and frequent guests. He was a constant correspondent |