PETER VISCHER 
characteristic pervades 
them all, but the unity of 
suggestion 1s conveyed 
through a variety of in- 
dividualities and of pose. 
Each Apostle stands forth 
distinct in the vigour of his 
own inspired personality. 
(Ill. 8 and 9.) 
“Above the apostles are 
set the Fathers of the 
Church, or it may be, the 
twelve minor prophets. 
Beneath them, on the wes- 
tern end of the substruc- 
ture 1s a noble statue of 
St. Sebald, who holds in 
his hand a model of the 
church called afterhis name, 
and at the corresponding 
place on the other end that 
statue of Peter Vischer 
himself, to which we have 
already referred. Here, in 
SR ERT] large Latin characters we 
st. separp’s crore, (10d the inscription ¢ Ein 
vorneere Anfang durch mich’ (a 
8S. ST. PETER beginning by me) ‘Peter 
Vischer, 1508,” and under 
St. Sebald the record of the completion of the 
base : ‘ Gemacht von Peter Vischer, 1509.’ 
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