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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 209 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_212.jpg |
| Transcript | much lacking in most G tad here in plenty, and in a still higher degree the artist displays his sense ol ntion to detail. To fin k of the fifteenth century which can vie with this in richness and in depth of feeling, as well essful handling of bronze, we must go I thin- - tberti's gates of the Baptistry at Flo however, which must be passed on the Sebaldusgrab is that the pans are very much gre.r e; but the beauty and - are so great that once l within if influence we forget and forgive any fault t have caught our eye in the pro- portionment of the com; I ire- It was in 1507 that Vischer received the co: sion t< s superb receptacle for the bones of St. Sebald. For twelve years he with his five sons laboured, though their labour was often interrupted by want of fu subscriptions failed to supply . - oo pounds—about 7 tons—of aJNOSl Tucher in moving words had told the citizens in St. Sebald's Church that they ought to subscribe the 800 gulden *till a o( God and His Holy Saint,*' tlu was forthcoming, and the monu ment u iron railings which surround it were madias, who was also responsible for the the mechanism for drawing water at the deep well c>: crsberg. Rou: rine runs the following er Burger in Nurnberg machet dieses V r,, ward voll- brachtim Jahr, allein G machtigen zu lob und iimmelsfursten zu chren, mn H btiger Leut too dem Almosen hezahlt." o 209 |