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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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among other matters, the decision, veryimportant for Nuremberg, that every German Emperor should hold his firstDiet there. A painting of our own time on a house in the Schildgasse alsorecords the same thing. Like the Frauenkirche, the Hospital Church of the Holy Ghost, — whichis a few years older, and was built in the years 1331 —1341 by the wealthycitizen Conrad Gross, in connection with his hospital, — also awakens memories■of old Imperial splendour, for here were placed until the close of the 18^ cen-tury the Imperial Regalia and Relics, which had been entrusted by the Emperor THE IMPERIAL REGALIA. 33 Sigismund, in 1424, at the suit of the council, to the care of the city for ever.They had been brought to the city in a gay procession on the 22° March ofthat year. Until 1523 the Relics were displayed annually to the people ona scaffolding set up on the west side of the Market place. Since about tenyears ago, a painting has adorned the fagade of the house, in which they were
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Fig. 17. St. Maurices Chapel and the Bratwurstglocklein.Photograph by F. Schmidt. kept the night before their exhibition. For this house, too, Diirer made hisportraits of Charles the Great and the Emperor Sigismund. The Regalia waspreserved in a silver shrine, which used to hang from the choir vault and isnow to be seen in the Germanic Museum. On the occasion of a coronation,it was conveyed by Nuremberg envoys, with great pomp and show, to the townwhere the ceremony was to take place. Nuremberg. 3 34 FOURTEENTH CENTURY CHURCHES. The three-aisled Hospital Church, enlarged in 1527, contains the tomb ofits founder, who died in 1356. Its interior was decorated with heavy Barockstucco ornaments, in the years 1662—1663, by the Italian Carlo Brentano, butthe exterior has preserved its Gothic character. The little aisle-less church,known as the Chapel of St. Maurice (fig. 17), removed as has been said fromthe Market-place to the Cemetery of St. Sebald in 1313, is, like the HospitalChurch, a

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