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P r e f a c e.
.■he interest which old Nuremberg excites in every sriend of German Art and
mediaeval grandeur and capacity, is too generally acknowledged to need further no-
tice here; indeed hardly can a second town in Germany boast like Nuremberg of such
fine and peculiar buildings — as Waagen says, it need not shun comparison with
Florence and Oxford»
Besides the extensive variety of its buildings, the town possesses an additional
treasure in its sculptures, which being for the most part well-preservcd, offer a
rieh field of study both to the Artist and Amateur, and afford an uninterrupted series
of some of the finest examples of German art srom its rise in the thirteenth Century
to its gradual decay in the sixteenth. Here stand the names Schonhover, Vi-
scher, Kraft and Stoss, and many an unknown but not less great Master, as the
pillars of German mediaeval Sculpture, living before our eyes in their finest works,
while alas! the works of Painters of the Nuremberg School have for the most part
wandered away, and must be sought for in other places. Many of these sculptures
have already been engraved and made the property of the public, but there are still
many objects, in the Originals themselves little known, and as yet unpublished.
But yet there is so rauch of the Beautiful extant! It is therefore perhaps no un-
gratesul task which the author of these pages has imposed upon himself, viz that of
giving a fait hful representation of the best Sculptures in Nuremberg, He purposed
thereby as well to give to the Modeller who perceives the value of the old German
Masters, examples of the most superior which are to be sound here, for his further
study, as also to bring before the Historian the different manners and customs of by-
.■he interest which old Nuremberg excites in every sriend of German Art and
mediaeval grandeur and capacity, is too generally acknowledged to need further no-
tice here; indeed hardly can a second town in Germany boast like Nuremberg of such
fine and peculiar buildings — as Waagen says, it need not shun comparison with
Florence and Oxford»
Besides the extensive variety of its buildings, the town possesses an additional
treasure in its sculptures, which being for the most part well-preservcd, offer a
rieh field of study both to the Artist and Amateur, and afford an uninterrupted series
of some of the finest examples of German art srom its rise in the thirteenth Century
to its gradual decay in the sixteenth. Here stand the names Schonhover, Vi-
scher, Kraft and Stoss, and many an unknown but not less great Master, as the
pillars of German mediaeval Sculpture, living before our eyes in their finest works,
while alas! the works of Painters of the Nuremberg School have for the most part
wandered away, and must be sought for in other places. Many of these sculptures
have already been engraved and made the property of the public, but there are still
many objects, in the Originals themselves little known, and as yet unpublished.
But yet there is so rauch of the Beautiful extant! It is therefore perhaps no un-
gratesul task which the author of these pages has imposed upon himself, viz that of
giving a fait hful representation of the best Sculptures in Nuremberg, He purposed
thereby as well to give to the Modeller who perceives the value of the old German
Masters, examples of the most superior which are to be sound here, for his further
study, as also to bring before the Historian the different manners and customs of by-