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Title: Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century.
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Rée, Paul Johannes, b. 1858 Palmer, G. H. (George Henry), b. 1871, tr
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : H. Grevel & Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Fig. 72. Diirer: Portrait of his mother. Charcoal drawingof 1514, in the Cabinet of Engravings, Berlin. ALBERT DURER. 115 the pithy words: and if the world were full of devils, and would utterly devourus, we would for all that not fear greatly that we should not succeed. In very close connection with this print were the wonderful engravings of
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Fig. 73. Diirer: Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuhci. In the Museum, Berlin. the following year, the Melancholia, and St. Jerome in his study (fig. 75^.These contrast the laurel-crowned but unsatisfying researches of a doubter,estranged from God, with the peaceful labours of a scholar devoted to him,who by faith has comprehended what a sophistical intellect strives in vain tounderstand. In the one we have disquiet and discord, in the other harmony 8* ii6 ALBERT DURER. and peace; in the one a bright, cold North light throwing a pale gleam overeverything, in the other, golden sunlight, pouring through the windows intothe room, playing over the walls and ceiling, and diffusing everywhere a cosywarmth. We feel plainly in these prints the pulse of his time.

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