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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 210 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_213.jpg |
| Transcript | That is the keynote oi this wonderful structure. Through years of diliiculty and distress the pious artist had totk uggled on with the hi pious persons, paid by untary contri* to complete a work fGod Almighty alone and the honour ot i." No wor . feels, can add to the simple • tion. It lUppliet us with the motive of the work, and it supplies us also with the interpretation ol the various groups and statues which form the shrine. To the glory of God,—we are shown how all the world, all nature and her j heroic deeds and natural virtues, the Old Dispensation with its prophets ,,nd the Ne - apostles and saints, pay honi;i. I ho enthroned on the summit holds in his hands the terrestrial globe. 1\ the honour oj bald,—the ni (»othic chapel of bronze, under the richly fretted canopy some n feet high, cm n coffer encase silver in which the bone he ; and below I hich date- mirable bas-reliefs rep es from the lite ot" the Saint.1 At the tret ot tlu- eight slender pillars which support the ts of strange figure creatures 8uggt\sti\e ot the world of pagan mythology gods of the forest and of the sea, water and the wood. BctWCCU them are some lion couchant, whi memory Wol;" lYringsdorffer Altar-piece. At the four corners arc Candl most gra A seductive winged mermaids. But the most famous m most beautiful figures arc those of the 'I Apostles, which Stai et, on hig brackets and in niches on the | anopV 1 For thr Hf<- and mfraesst of Bt sehsld a 210 |