Peter Vischer

Headlam, Cecil

Peter Vischer

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Persistent identifier:: 06856545

URN:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:75-20221128101137

Title:: Peter Vischer

Shelfmark:: Amb. 8. 1526

Author:: Headlam, Cecil

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Bell

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Norica

Publication year:: 1901

Scope:: XI, 143 S.

Copyright:: Stadtbibliothek im Bildungscampus Nürnberg

Language:: English

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Title:: CHAPTER VIII. THE TOMB OF ELECTOR FREDERICK THE WISE, AND THE RATHAUS RAILING

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Collection:: Norica

CHAPTER VIII THE TOMB OF ELECTOR FREDERICK THE WISE, AND THE RATHAUS RAILING ID UT the work of Peter Vischer the younger B was not yet done. It remained, indeed, for him to perform some of his greatest achievements. Certain documents quoted by Baader! show that it was he who, in the beginning of the year 1527, completed the monument to the Elector Frederick the Wise at Wittenberg, of which Liibke writes that it is “a classic work and through it the Ger- man art of that period is worthy to take rank with the Italian.” The life-size figure of the great Elector stands in strong relief upon a bronze plate within a frame of Corinthian pillars, outside which, on either side, the sixteen coats of arms of the ancestors of the Prince’s house are recorded, whilst his own arms form the central. point of the arch above his head. Above the latter coat-of-arms two sturdy angels, forming a central headpiece, hold a laurel wreath, and therewith the ‘Elector’s favourite text inscribed in Latin: “The word of “ Beitrige zur Kunstgeschichte Niirnbergs.” IOI

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