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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 193 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_196.jpg |
| Transcript | The Arts and Crafts Venice in 1505. Here he painted for the German colony, as an altar-piece in the Church of St. Bar- tolommeo, the Madonna dd Rosario% now at Prague. This picture contain* portraits of Maximilian, Julius II.. aeimer, and several German mer chants. So great was the admiration roused by it that the Doge visited the artist and endeavours were made to induce him to live permanent ice. But in 15c of all temptations, he returned to his native town and proceeded to execute many commis- In l$ct^ he obtained ar on from the Council to prevent the fraudulent copying of his prints. In the same year a Nuremberg worthy, Matt ha us :, added a chapel to the almshouses (Zu bruderhaus or Landauerkloster) he had founded 1501. The chapel was dedicated to All Saints, and Dur vited to paint an altar-piece for it, repre senting 4* 'ration of the Trinity by all Sair The result, the Allerheiligenbild, is one of the artist's noblest and most famous compositions, but it too has the Rat sold it to Emperor Rudolph II. a copy for which :ncd the < me. In 1 5C9 Durer bough* er-haus and took his aged mother to live with him there. He also bought hi a" house in the Burgstrasse off his brother. This in itself shows that the stories of his een much exaggerated. On his death he left 6858 gulden—a s-ery good fortune in those days. His conne* an, to which we have ed,1 no doubt brought him some thing, though he had difficulty in procuring the J ment of the pension allowed him I mperor. The Council, in i$to, at last gave a sign that tt were aware of the presence of a great artist in it ■ |