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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- 30. West doorway of St. Lawrences Church.Photograph by F. Schmidt. Art stirring to life under the constraint of traditional forms. Before all else, theexpression of the heads, so full of life, and the natural treatment of the draperyshow how greatly the sculptors strove to be in direct intercourse with nature.That desire is evident too in the fresh and bright execution. Naturalisticfreshness and vigour did not leave the sculptor even when he carried out FOURTEENTH CENTURY SCULPTURE. 51 works so full of detail as the heads of the figures on the Schoner Brunnen(to judge of which we can examine the originals in the Germanic Museum),or the beautiful terracotta figures of the Apostles on the high altar of St. JamesChurch or in the Germanic Museum. In those works we find no artists tricks
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Fig. 31. Porch of the Frauenkirche.Photograph by F. Schmidt. of working, but, before all else, a cultivated feeling for what is essential inthe presentment. And as it is with single figures, so it is with crowdedcompositions. All parts are subordinated to the whole in a beautiful anddecorative general treatment. For this, the sculptured decoration of the doorway of St. Lawrences Church 4* 52. FOURTEENTH CENTURY SCULPTURE. (fig. 30) is especially distinguished. It recalls the doorway-decoration of FrenchCathedrals in both the subjects and the arrangement of the sculptures, andit pleases us on account of the beautiful, rhythmical distribution of its masses,before we look into its details at all. The lofty pointed arch of the portalrises with two deep hollow mouldings; it is flanked by standing figures, undercanopies, of Saints Stephen, Lawrence, Sebald and Leonard. The Virgin standson the centre-post dividing the wide, square door-opening, and, correspondinglyplaced in the hollows of th

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