PETER VISCHER
ornament, the complete triumph of the worship of
the antique is evident. Only the figures of the
Saviour and of the Cardinal Virtues are borrowed
from the ideas of Christian art. The rest is sheer
paganism.
* Without question Vischer’s Rathaus Railing
takes the first place among the masterpieces of
the distinct and complete Renaissance in Ger-
many.”
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