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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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1576 and etched by JostAmman. Like Neuchatel, Nicholas Juvenell, who died in 1597, ^^^o came fromthe Netherlands. He was a master of perspective and was especially dis-tinguished for his pictures of architectural interiors. Mention will be made laterof the work of his son Paul. We find no sign of a sound further developmentin painting on the foundation laid by Diirer, but admiration for his seeminglymiraculous art lasted, in spite of all foreign influences, and it even increasedin degree in the course of the century, so that it became the fashion to acquirea Diirer. The consequence was that a school of imitators and copyists ofDiirer arose in Nuremberg, who tried to imitate the masters method to suchan extent as to deceive, and to copy his works with an absolute exactnessthat was carried even to the last little hair in a beard. One of the earliest ofthese Diirer-copyists was Hans Hofmann, who died in 1600. His style is shownby the Muffel copy and the Ecce Homo in the Germanic Museum.
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Fig. io6. The Spittlerthor and its tower.riiotograpL by F. Schmidt. NUREMBERG AND ITS ARCHITECTURE IN THE 16™ CENTURY. THE general aspect of the town was little altered during the i6 cen-tury. Ecclesiastical architecture was quite at a standstill, and it wasonly in the second half of the century that an activity in secular build-ing, increasing from that time, began to assert itself. There was no extensionof the walls beyond the enceinte which had been substantially completed 152 THE FORTIFICATIONS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. at the middle of the 15* century, but those defences received various ad-ditions, required by progress in the art of war, and the changes enrichedthe outward appearance of the town with a number of charming features. Suchwas the origin of the important fortifications (in course of building until I545)which form the monumental base of the Castle and contribute in no slight de-gree, with their luxuriant vegetation, to the picturesqueness of the whole. Abroad and de

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