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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 237 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_240.jpg |
| Transcript | The Churches o) Suremlu ) The background is of gold : the subject is Christ on the Cross between Mary and John ; on the wings, the Mount of Olives and SS. Catherine and Barbara. In this picture the cramping of the figures and the crude drawing of the hands and feet are noticeable, but in the modelling of the heads there is much th.* noble and very beautiful. On the pillar next to (S.) the Haller Altar relief, "Carrying the Cross,'' by Adam Krafft, 1496. Later and more vigorous works by the same master are the Last Supper, Mount of Olives and Betr (1501), reliefs 5 feet high by 5 feet broad on the 1 . wall of the Choir. The Betrayal is distinctly the best composed and most telling of the three. The Last Supper, the arrangement of which is somewhat crowded and confused, has the interest of exhibiting in the Apostles portraits of some members of the Council. The Apostle with the goblet is said to be Paul Volkamer (the founder) and he with the small cap Adam Krafft himself, or, it may t .to whom the sculptures, on the strength of the monop' V.>. on them, are now usually attributed. We need not stay long over the Tucher Altar with its ever-burning lamp, founded by the first baron Tucher, 1326, and its seventeenth-century altar-piece, or the painting by Joh. Franz Erase! < the irection, over the Muffels Altar next the Schau- thiire, or the new pulpit (1859) by Heideloff and Rotermundt. The choir-stalls and the P I ith its old sculptures, dating from the second half of the fourteenth century, are worth examining, as also are the numerous reliefs on the pillars of the choir. The Crowning of Mary on the first choir pillar on the north side is attributed I \ . StJOCS. On a column to the right of the pulpit hangs I copy of Durer's Inter- merit of Christ, with the armorial bearings of the |