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 191 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_194.jpg |
Transcript | 77 and ( also of Reuchlin and hrasmus. A martyr to gou'. naturally choleric, but he had the humour to write I poem in praise of gou*. ;*t and vein Iiions led to his quarrelling in time with . friend except the gentle Durer. Coarse and caustic w <d it is only under his influence that Durer ever shows these qualities. Pirkheimer was, in fil I man, a Tery great man, in his day; but he lives now through his friendship <nd through tl M marvellous engraving so full of , which Durer published in i j .^g and painting Durer also turned his at • > wood-engraving, and by admirable work and designs began to its place among t'r iest woodcuts is er .'/ Bath. It represents a grou; nude male figures in one of those open-air public oaths in tl , which are still used in Nuremberg, and old writer says: *4 A solicitude particularly attentive to the needs of the working classes and to the health and well-being of artisans, servants and the poor, has established baths in the towns and villa. praiseworthy and prohubi health feo bath at least once a fo There were a de 1 public baths at I >urer no doubt in his pursur .de. He continued to pour forth logy and chuich until .oduced I : trumpet-call of the the famous scries of wood-cut I the Apocalypse. In this scries, so lull of art d imagination. I not only us the aspirations of his own mind, but he also expresses the thoughts and emotions of the age in whic Apocalypse, in which under the veil ot iehgious symbolism are made to appear the |