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PLATE VIII.
Mary worsltipping* tlie Infant Christ.
Around the Angelic Salutation in St. Lawrence’s church, a rosary is hung, on which the
seven Joys of Mary are represented, and from which the subject of Plate VIII. is borrowed.
Stoss completed this work for the order of Anton Tücher in the year 1518 and if he gives in
the colossal figures of the Angel and Mary in the Annunciation, a striking example of the method
of treatment which had become the style of the Painters and Sculptors of his time, yet he is on
the contrary in the small relievo carvings niuch simpler and more natural, and he shows especially
in his figures of Mary a grace and virginity which is in a truly delightsul männer attractive. And
these relievos themselves bear so great a resemblance to those of that master whoni we mentioned
under Plate V. that also the figure of Mary here given agrees very nearly with that in the same
scene on the wood carving in the castle chapel.
The Vignette on the title of this work, of Mary crowned by Christ, is also taken from the
Seven Joys of Mary. It too may serve to corroborate the praise we have just bestowed on the
charming virginlike air which characterizes Stoss’s figures of Mary.
PLATE IX.
Mary as qiicen of lieaven with her Child.
In the Hirscheigasse, which leads from the Läufer Gate towards the castle, against an insig-
nificant dwelling house Stands the statue given in Plate IX. Gaudily painted yet softened into
harmony by time, it makes by its noble drawing and singulär style a peculiar impression. That
here doubly strikes the eye accustomed to the general character of German sculpture. The statue
would chiefly remind one of the Apostles of Peter Fischer but executed in an Italian spirit. For
if we call to mind the Nuremberg sculptors from Schonhover to Stoss, and then consider this figure
of Mary in the entirely modern method of treading the drapery, and especially the child, which
has in no former instance come before us in so beautiful a form, in so pleasing an attitude, we
PLATE VIII.
Mary worsltipping* tlie Infant Christ.
Around the Angelic Salutation in St. Lawrence’s church, a rosary is hung, on which the
seven Joys of Mary are represented, and from which the subject of Plate VIII. is borrowed.
Stoss completed this work for the order of Anton Tücher in the year 1518 and if he gives in
the colossal figures of the Angel and Mary in the Annunciation, a striking example of the method
of treatment which had become the style of the Painters and Sculptors of his time, yet he is on
the contrary in the small relievo carvings niuch simpler and more natural, and he shows especially
in his figures of Mary a grace and virginity which is in a truly delightsul männer attractive. And
these relievos themselves bear so great a resemblance to those of that master whoni we mentioned
under Plate V. that also the figure of Mary here given agrees very nearly with that in the same
scene on the wood carving in the castle chapel.
The Vignette on the title of this work, of Mary crowned by Christ, is also taken from the
Seven Joys of Mary. It too may serve to corroborate the praise we have just bestowed on the
charming virginlike air which characterizes Stoss’s figures of Mary.
PLATE IX.
Mary as qiicen of lieaven with her Child.
In the Hirscheigasse, which leads from the Läufer Gate towards the castle, against an insig-
nificant dwelling house Stands the statue given in Plate IX. Gaudily painted yet softened into
harmony by time, it makes by its noble drawing and singulär style a peculiar impression. That
here doubly strikes the eye accustomed to the general character of German sculpture. The statue
would chiefly remind one of the Apostles of Peter Fischer but executed in an Italian spirit. For
if we call to mind the Nuremberg sculptors from Schonhover to Stoss, and then consider this figure
of Mary in the entirely modern method of treading the drapery, and especially the child, which
has in no former instance come before us in so beautiful a form, in so pleasing an attitude, we