Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. (1905)
Rée, Paul Johannes, b. 1858, Palmer, G. H. (George Henry), b. 1871, tr · London : H. Grevel & Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 85
over of which shows with what freedom the mastermade forms that had come down to him serve his artistic purposes. This isshown, too, in the entwined pinnacles and in the foliage growing from the tracery.Many places round Nuremberg, as Schwabach, Katzwang, the Monasteryof Heilsbronn, Kalchreuth,… … Fig. 47. Relief, by Adam Kraft, on the Weighing Office.Photograph by F. Schmidt. We know already (p. 63) the Weighing relief (fig. 47) made in 1497.It is a masterpiece of a rather rare kind, original and full of humour, and atthe same time a first class piece of decoration, with its well placed…
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