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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 207 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_210.jpg |
| Transcript | t Jrts tind Crafts mistakably than in I iischer Gruss " (: —the Ang h hangs from the roof of the L< work of tender piety, in which the figures is very noticeable. Formerly g hung in the choir suspended by a costly chain. But owing to the torrent of coarse abuse which Osiander, the gt er and reformer, hurled against it, it was wrapped up in a green sack, on which were set cher arms. Later on, the chain was replaced by a rope. Then the Greeting was moved about from church to church till at last it returned to St. Lawrence's. But it was insecurely hung, and ir. tell from a of 50 feet and was broken to pieces. It wa skilfully put together again by the brothers Rotermundt. But the huge crown which originally surmounted it was not rest 01 i as this carving is, and beautiful as are al figures and details in the medallions, tl ts a whole is, I confess, too flo o heavy for my u> than be dishonest in my cnthusu (withe liousness) that for those who like this g, this is the sort of thing they like. The 1 who holds in her left hand 1 book, her right hand being laid upon her breast, and an angel with the Annunciation. stand alocx in thr centre of a rose-wreath franv c wreath is carred God vo angrU. with erown and 1 r» In-neat mgel* hovering about icavrnly music. Under the wreath. Eve*s serpent (with • mquered by the which *ry. On the wreath itself, seven round medallions in low \nnunciation. the Rosenkranx-tafrl in thr Museu: Resurrect: and Crowning of M- |