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

Document type:: Monograph

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Collection:: Norica

PETER VISCHER presents the “ Miracle of the Icicles” is probably by Peter Vischer the younger. For the modelling of the female figures there distinctly reminds us, in drapery and in pose of the head and body, of the Eurydice in his “ Orpheus and Eurydice,” of the Vita in his inkstands, and of the flute-player in the Sebaldusgrab. And by him, also, is the “ Healing of the Blind Man,” which is by far the finest of the four reliefs. There is a movement in the whole and a unity in the composition quite admirable, whilst the cautious, tentative gait of the suddenly blinded man, not yet accustomed to the eternal darkness which has come upon him, is indicated with a delicacy and sureness of touch which pro- claim a truly great and original artist. In the treatment of the drapery on the moving figures we read the result of his study of the antique. It is used to indicate and to explain the movement that ts taking place. And very noticeable is the seizing of the dramatic moment, which is a conspicuous characteristic of the artist of *“ Orpheus and Eury- dice.” In the portrayal of the apostles on the Sebal- dusgrab Vischer and his sons have attained the perfect expression of the ideal after which the father had vainly striven in the monument at Magdeburg. In every way the advance made by the artist since he wrought that early masterpiece is notice- able. The apostles here, unlike those in the original design, and unlike, also, those on the tomb 58

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