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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 277 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_277.jpg |
| Transcript | man M Rooms 3 -- Roman antiquities found in Germany and German antiqui- >m fourth to tenth centuries. The exquisite German gold and metal-work of the Charlemagne period seems to foreshadow the work of the great Nuremberg goldsmiths. Room 8. Latest acquisitions of the Museum. Rooms i cry fine collection of characteristic stoves and tile- used for covering the walls and floors, took the place of mosaics and are ornamented with leaf-work, stars. -s-of-arms or grotesques. The tiles of the which should be compared with those in the Castle and the Rathaus. were made, in the fifteenth century, to represent chiefly mythological subjects, whilst the seventeenth-century ones betray, as we should expect. Italian influence. A green with concave plates (Room 12 and an eighteenth- century rococco specimen Room 1 5 . from the house of the iolz family are remarkable. Rooms 14. 1 ; contain some beautiful examples of the locksmith's art : hinges, knockers, and kno^ workmanship and in design. We have here a real lesson in ironwork, a perfect education in hin^ Room 16 Wilhelms-halle. so-called after Emperor Wilhelm I. It - a window given by him in 1S60. when he was still only King of Prussia, Passing by this and the Hohenzollern- halle opposite and going down the Lodwigtgmng, built by the me to the Reichs-hof. a eour vhich stands a gigantic cast of the Roland in the market -place of Bremen. Rooms 18-25 are called the Victoria and Friedrich Wilhelm buildings. More tombs and On the right of the corridor Room 26 there now a very interesting collection of stained glass which is arranged chronologically. Twelfth to -ixteenth-century here.) • lil Refectory ot the n e home for 1 collection oi German and Italian pottery, majolu |