THE SHRINE OF ST. SEBALD 
fine; the eyes deep set, the neck sinewy. The 
loose and admirable fall of the drapery is in the 
new manner. And with that nervous grasp. of 
the key, that searching gaze, those wrinkled and 
contracted brows, the youthful craftsman has nobly 
represented his patron Saint, Peter the bald, in- 
tellectual Keeper of the Gates of Heaven. 
Completely different again in type and treat- 
ment is the figure of the Apostle Bartholomew. 
(Ill. 13.) It smacks of Rome, and Roman too is 
Simon. These, we should naturally hazard, were the 
work of Hermann the eldest son, after his return 
from his Rome-reise in 1516. And in this theory 
we are confirmed by a passage in a manuscript 
in the Nuremberg Town Library, which tells us 
that “ Hermann Vischer alone made the Apostle 
Bartholomew and several tabernacles,” as, for in- 
stance, without doubt that Roman triumphal arch 
above the statue of St. Paul. 
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