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 205 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_208.jpg |
Transcript | \nd Cr On the pillar* above «tand the four Evangelist* ? and above all the figur it hand str out in benediction, the left holding the banner of vict But apart from the details of the earring, it is the grace of the fretted Gothic pinnacle of finest filigree ork that seizes <> :on. Tapering, or rather njsOOJ irries the eye up to the spandr; >f the choir, soarin the notes of a flute- : d em bod ice of some deeply spiritual aspiration. The d boiation of this wonderful stonework seems to have ov 11 terrestial heaviness. Higher still and higher, it springs from the earth like Shelley's des not from view. For when, some the ground, the bend of the vaulting checks its bows its beautiful head and like a r.s sulk or snowdrop on its stem terminates in I pendant Bower. It is indeed a miracle » slender and graceful is it and withal so clear-cut that the triumph of the artist over almost unearthly, whilst the spring and proportion of th urpness of the carving redeem him from the imputation of making an inappropriate use of stone. In this, as in the Sch ace the inflm • I I ..rer on the •lore probable that s style with its excessive minuteness influenced Alber .nd was in turn influenced by M .; (as a visit to urn will iberg. e indeed so many C end oi ith cent.. .nder- all gained a livelihood. The g: BDOSsf them, if we except the unknown ma> 205 |