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Division A.—School of Nuremberg.—Flotner.
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contemporary pamphlet, “ Yonn Romisclier Kayserli- | clier Mayestat Caroli v. | Ehrlich
einreitten in des Hey- | ligen Reichs stat Niirm- | berg den xvj . Februarij . | Anno
M.D. xxxxj.,” printed by Baltliasar Miiller, Wurzburg (1541), 4to.' The arch is also
described in a poem by Hans Sachs, dated 10 March, 1541 (Works, vol. i, 1558,
fol. ccii), and in Goldast’s edition of Pirklieimer’s works, after the account of the
Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I. I do not know the edition of the woodcut, witli
German and Latin text, published at Fraukfort by Egenolph. which Lichtwark1 2
mentions. The arch is reproduced in Hirth’s “ Formenscbatz,” 1883, nos. 156, 157.
I ascribed this woodcut to Fbitner in 1897,3 without being aware tliat the attribution
had already been proposed in 1888 by Lichtwark I still think Fldtner’s authorship
probable, but not certain. Architectural ornament remarkably like that on the arch,
and equally good, may be found on the frames of the contemporary woodcuts (datecl
1542) of the “ Kirchenordnung ” for the Palatinate printed by Petreius at Nuremberg
in 1543. One of these woodcuts is signed by M. Gerung and two by Y. Solis (whether
as draughtsman, oras wood-engraver after Gerung, is not quite clear).
27a. TRIUMPHAL ARCH.
[Sheet, 372 x 480.] Late impression, after the blocks were much worn, without
the extra leaf.
Purchased from Mr. Cohn, 1880.
28. A HUMAN SUN-DIAL.
A man dressecl in shirt and boots reclines nearly in the attitude of
the letter V in Flotner’s human alphabet (Reimers, fig. 45), with the sun
shining over his head. A rod bent at an acute angle, forming the
gnomon of the dial, starts from his mouth ancl ends at the anus, while
the hours are marked on the under side of his naked thighs. The r. foot
rests on a portable dial in a box with black arabesques on the lid, and
the 1. foot on an hour-glass. The latter contains ordure instead of the
glasses which should hold the sand, and a heap of the same material,
pierced by a chisel, lies on a cushion in the foregrouncl.
[200 x 314.] A rather late impression, ou paper of the xvi century; watermark,
small eagle and crown.
In the inventory of 1837.
I liave already described this woodcut. which appears to be unique, in Bepert. f.
Kunstw. xx, 210. The subject reveals the coarser side of Fldtner’s temperament.
The excrement and chisel, even without the initials, amount to a signature. (See
Lange, p. 17.)
29. TITE TRIUMPIT OF BACCTIUS.
P. iii, 256, 6. Reimers 8. Lange, p. 22 (repr. p. 101).
Bacchus, a naked child, sits on a car drawn by goats ; the leading
he-goat is about to jump through a hoop held by two Msenads ; the she-
goats behind him are being fed by a satyr. Bacchus holds in his 1. hand
a spoon full of steaming liquid drawn from a pan placed before him, while
he bends back and plucks dates with his r. hand from a palm carried by
a child behind him. A seconcl child carries a torch, and a third pushes
1 The writer says that he need not describe the arch and its ornaments at lcngtk,
“wil solchs einem Kunstler befellien, der es etwo mit der zeyt ausz rechter kunst der
Geometrei abconterfet und abgemalet ausz lest ghen.”
2 “ Der Ornamentstich der deutschen Friihrenaissance,” p. 149.
3 liepert. f. Kunstw. xx, 209.
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contemporary pamphlet, “ Yonn Romisclier Kayserli- | clier Mayestat Caroli v. | Ehrlich
einreitten in des Hey- | ligen Reichs stat Niirm- | berg den xvj . Februarij . | Anno
M.D. xxxxj.,” printed by Baltliasar Miiller, Wurzburg (1541), 4to.' The arch is also
described in a poem by Hans Sachs, dated 10 March, 1541 (Works, vol. i, 1558,
fol. ccii), and in Goldast’s edition of Pirklieimer’s works, after the account of the
Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I. I do not know the edition of the woodcut, witli
German and Latin text, published at Fraukfort by Egenolph. which Lichtwark1 2
mentions. The arch is reproduced in Hirth’s “ Formenscbatz,” 1883, nos. 156, 157.
I ascribed this woodcut to Fbitner in 1897,3 without being aware tliat the attribution
had already been proposed in 1888 by Lichtwark I still think Fldtner’s authorship
probable, but not certain. Architectural ornament remarkably like that on the arch,
and equally good, may be found on the frames of the contemporary woodcuts (datecl
1542) of the “ Kirchenordnung ” for the Palatinate printed by Petreius at Nuremberg
in 1543. One of these woodcuts is signed by M. Gerung and two by Y. Solis (whether
as draughtsman, oras wood-engraver after Gerung, is not quite clear).
27a. TRIUMPHAL ARCH.
[Sheet, 372 x 480.] Late impression, after the blocks were much worn, without
the extra leaf.
Purchased from Mr. Cohn, 1880.
28. A HUMAN SUN-DIAL.
A man dressecl in shirt and boots reclines nearly in the attitude of
the letter V in Flotner’s human alphabet (Reimers, fig. 45), with the sun
shining over his head. A rod bent at an acute angle, forming the
gnomon of the dial, starts from his mouth ancl ends at the anus, while
the hours are marked on the under side of his naked thighs. The r. foot
rests on a portable dial in a box with black arabesques on the lid, and
the 1. foot on an hour-glass. The latter contains ordure instead of the
glasses which should hold the sand, and a heap of the same material,
pierced by a chisel, lies on a cushion in the foregrouncl.
[200 x 314.] A rather late impression, ou paper of the xvi century; watermark,
small eagle and crown.
In the inventory of 1837.
I liave already described this woodcut. which appears to be unique, in Bepert. f.
Kunstw. xx, 210. The subject reveals the coarser side of Fldtner’s temperament.
The excrement and chisel, even without the initials, amount to a signature. (See
Lange, p. 17.)
29. TITE TRIUMPIT OF BACCTIUS.
P. iii, 256, 6. Reimers 8. Lange, p. 22 (repr. p. 101).
Bacchus, a naked child, sits on a car drawn by goats ; the leading
he-goat is about to jump through a hoop held by two Msenads ; the she-
goats behind him are being fed by a satyr. Bacchus holds in his 1. hand
a spoon full of steaming liquid drawn from a pan placed before him, while
he bends back and plucks dates with his r. hand from a palm carried by
a child behind him. A seconcl child carries a torch, and a third pushes
1 The writer says that he need not describe the arch and its ornaments at lcngtk,
“wil solchs einem Kunstler befellien, der es etwo mit der zeyt ausz rechter kunst der
Geometrei abconterfet und abgemalet ausz lest ghen.”
2 “ Der Ornamentstich der deutschen Friihrenaissance,” p. 149.
3 liepert. f. Kunstw. xx, 209.