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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 665

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Neth-erlands. The same may be said of several stone sculptures of thisperiod at Ratisbon. The influence of wood-carving upon stone sculpture is unmistak- 6zS GOTHIC SCULPTURE. able in Franconia, especially in Nuremberg, the school of which, inthis latter branch, surpassed all others of Germany. The… … Fig. 390.—Part of the Monument of Emperor Louis the Bavarian in the Church of Our Lady, Munich. of Stoss, and indeed that of wood-carving in general. In his mag-nificent tabernacles — the so-called sacrament houses — he so thor-oughly transferred to stone the forms of the Gothic carved altarsthat,…

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