The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 230
is famous son. 210 THE RENAISSANCE IN GERMANY Nuremberg, with its rich commer-cial class, was the Florence of Ger-many about the year 1500, but it wasa coarser Florence, intent on expres-sion rather than on beauty. It pro-duced many masterpieces of wood-carving. The head of its school ofpainting… … FIG. 405.—THE BIRTH OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST.A. ALTDORFER. (Museum, Augsburg.)(Photo, by Hanfstacngl.) During the first half of the six-teenth century, Germany producedtwo painters of genius, and one veryrichly gifted artist: Albert Diirer,Hans Holbein, and Lucas Cranach. Diirer (1472-1528) was a…
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