Identifier: nurembergitsartt00repa (find matches)
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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as the centre one. The warm red tint of the stonework and the bright gleam of the well preserved coloured windows, dating mostly from the last third of the 15* century, contribute substantially to the picturesque effect. The finely vaulted, two-storied sacristy is a decorative masterpiece. With the pretty wall containing the entrances to it, and the winding stair turret erected in 1819 (fig. 35), it projects far into the south side of the choir. In the 15th century there was no longer any thought of an actixitj in church architecture, such as earlier centuries had seen in Nuremberg. There was no actual need for new churches, but at most for the extension and richer adornment of those that already existed. There were, however, some new 5! FIFTEENTH CENTURY CHAPELS. works, one of them being the insignificant Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre. This George Ketzel had built, in the Hospital Cemetery, in 1459, six years after he had fetched the material for it from Jerusalem, whither he had gone on a
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Fig. 34. St. Lawrences Church: exterior of choir. Photograph by F. Schmidt. pilgrimage with Frederick II., Margrave of Brandenburg. More important than the chapel just named is the Chapel of the Ebracher Hof, built by Hans Beer in 1483. Its artistically fashioned fan vault was only surpassed by the stately vault of the same kind, supported by four round pillars, in the church of the Augustinians, built by the same master during the years 1479—1485- FIFTEENTH CENTURY CHAPELS. 59 This church was unfortunately taken down early in the 19th century, in 1816. The circular funeral chapel of the Holzschuher von Harrlach in Johannisfriedhof (Nürnberg), noteworthy for a group of the Entombment by Adam Kraft, is also a Late Gothic work, and so is the two-aisled chapel of the Zwolfbrüderhaus (House of the

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