The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)
Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 244
t to Rudolphus, remarkable leadingevents in Roman history are depicted in the hundred and thirty-six cartouches on the four sides of the posts. Rudolphus, whom history represents as an anti-Protestant bigot,and a credulous seeker after the philosophers stone rather than atriumphant warrior, appears… … RENAISSANCE IN NETHERLANDS AND GERMANY 177 than pictorial (as indeed all the great masters have been), he wasdoubtless imbued, when apprenticed to painter Wolgemut, thefounder of the great Nuremburg schoolof carvers, with the traditions of thatschool. His outlook was eminently Gothicand fantastic,…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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