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 IV. THE SHRINE OF ST. SEBALD

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Collection:: Norica

CHAPTER IV THE SHRINE OF ST. SEBALD ¢« In the Church of Sainted Sebald sleeps enshrined his holy dust, And in bronze the Twelve Apostles guard from age to age their trust.”’—LONGFELLOW. HE Magdeburg monument, whilst it bears 1 obvious traces of the influence of his father Hermann, of the school of Wolgemut, and of Adam Krafft upon the art of Peter Vischer, is an eloquent testimony also to the rapid development which was taking place in the mind and ideas of this eager craftsman. We have now reached the period when the ideals and the lessons of the Renaissance begin to master his imagination and to permeate his art to such a degree and with such success that the work which was next commissioned from him proves to be the first and greatest of Renais- sance works in Germany. The shrine of St. Sebald reflects the history of the artist's mind. Upon a Gothic base and foundation the spirit of Renais- sance detail has overwhelmingly impressed itself. Before we consider this work more closely it will be as well to state the sources whence our Nurem- 26

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