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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 199 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_202.jpg |
| Transcript | ^- The A practice of bargaining in the sacred precincts was eery lent at one time, and little booths were frequently built on to the churches. It is only quite recently that the booths attached lueokirchc were broken up. • North or the Rathaus runs the Thcresten Strasse. No. 7 is the house of Adam Krafft, the greatest of Nuremberg sculptors ( 1430-1 507). The house belonged originally to the Ptinzing family, and is of interest in its ts architectural features. The figun fountain in the co is by T I cher. I rn KrafTt, the and modest stone-mason, worked at his art to the glory of God. W KX1 to nothing of the man jk\ what we can learn from his handiwork. There is fortunately little reason for believing the legend that he died in great j> end we know he was of Lindenast and Vtscher, with whom, so great was his industry and eagerness to improve in art, he used to practise dr. holidays, even in his old age; and it is recorded that he mad fa call herself because he was Adam That quaint humour of his d in the pleasing relief over the gateway of the " Waage" or old weighing-house in the Winkler* e would see the counterfeit presentment of the man himself, we must pay a vu kird . on the pedestal of his rnasterptecv the naster appears with the tools and in the 4 his craft, kneeling in company with assista: pporting their beautiful creation. .nrumVd temper and he must hare been, thoroughly repre* ie best German spirit of h No I has portrayed the scenes of Christ's nth of genuine reeling. Happily pal works are at Nuremberg. Prob* 199 |