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Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
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Page 124 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
. It Wa § painted in 1650 for the Swedish generalissimo, the Count Palatine Charles Gustavus, and presented to the city of Nuremberg by the Crown of Sweden,” Waagen. — G. Pens 7^ Portrait of the Austrian general, Se bald Schirmer, a Nuremberger, | a armour; one of his best works.—-M and 82 are the copies, by G, Vischer of A. Dürer*s celebrated figures of gg* John and Peter, SS. Paul and Luke now in the Pinacothek at Munich’ The originals, which were presented by Dürer to his native city, were, i n 1627

l 59, Italian Landscape. — Peter ^ Ilooghe: 63, A Woman standing talk* ing to an Officer seated, with other figures; a good specimen. 4 ^ ^ - hind. — Savery : 88 , Building the Tow ^ of Babel; highly finished, but eohf 5 th Cabinet. — Stradanm : 114, D« visiting a family; "an artist seen out of Italy.” W. — Schalken: If? An old Woman reading by a lam®* 6 th Cabinet.-—Holbein the younger 4 Female portrait, called Catherine * Bora.— A. Dürer: 163, Hercules at tacking the Harpies.— Schünffchn Judith and

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
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Page 120 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
; in it is a bronze font, in which the Emperor Wenzel was baptized, which is said to he the oldest existing Nuremberg work in casting, It is highly ornamented, and at the base stand statues of the 4 Evangelists. Beneath this chapel is the ancient chapel of St. Peter. Against a pillar in the choir is a small statue in bronze, of the Virgin and Child, by a son of P. Vi sc her. But by far the most remark able object is the celebrated Shrine of St, Sebaldus, which still stands in the centre of the choir, though the

church is now devoted to the Lutheran service. It is the masterpiece of the distin- guished artist, Peter Vischer* (b. 1460» d. 1529), who was assisted in its con struction by his five "sons : he employ' 6 “ upon it 13 years of labour, and finished it in 1519. It is in the richest style oi Gothic architecture, entirely of bronze, consisting of a rich fretwork canopy supported on slender pillars, beneath which the relics of the Saint repose io an oaken chest encased with silver plates. " The statues

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
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Page 72 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
of limestone, 104J ft. high. In a row of niches above the porch, statues of Christ and the four Evangelists, by Schwanthider, are placed ; over these is a fine circular window ' and colossal figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, by the same sculp tor, decorate the ends of the gable. The walls and vaulting of the choir and transepts are covered with frescoes de signed by Gomelim, and painted by his p upils, with the exception of that of the Last Judgment, on the E. wall of the choir, which is entirely his own

as. Judge, in the midst of saints and angels ; on either side kneel the Virgin and the Baptist. On his 1. are Abraham, Noah, Moses, and David ; on his rt., Peter, James, John, and Paul. Beneath him are the angels sounding the trumpets, and the book of life and death ; on the 1. are the damned, with hell and fiends, and Satan sitting on a throne at the en trance of hell, half-robed in a mantle, and bearing the insignia of a prince of darkness ; on the rt. are the blessed; between them is the Archangel

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
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Page 127 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
its ordinary may be observed here f\ - (ho i e s in battlemented towers, with lo P , the walls ; the habitations an x^ses, in ancient times, of a tyrannical and timid aristocracy, who were obliged to by ever on the defensive, even against their fellow-citizens. The loftiest of these is the Golden Tower in the Waller- strasse; another bears the figures of iath and David painted on the out- . A third is attached to the inn of they Golden Cross. Cathedral (of St. Peter), one of the finest Gothic

, of singular beauty, highly worthy of attention as a work of art, probably of the 14th century. Just beyond this, in a recess, is the monument of the Primate Dalberg, in white marble, de signed by Ganova; and on the same side, near the end of the aisle, is a bronze tablet, with figures in low re lief, representing Christ taking’ leave of the Virgin, on the monument of a lady of Nuremberg, who died in 1521, by Peter Vischer: opposite to this is the modern monument of Bp, Witt- inann (died 1833), by Eberhard

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Books
Category:
Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1855
¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
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Page 73 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
, which together meant to set forth the Church triumphant, as opposed to the Church militant, represented in the body of the chapel. The Virgin sits enthroned, as representative of tbe Church, and. at her side the apostles Peter and Paul, and Moses and Elias. Above them is the Trinity. Over the organ-gallery is a fresco, represent ing the connection between the Church and the fine arts. Fine musical ser vices are well performed here by the choristers of the Royal Chapel, every and holiday, at 9 a.m

(St. Boniface) obtains by fer vent prayer the recovery of his father from mortal sickness, who in return dedicates his son to the priesthood, and delivers him to the Benedictines, by Hess. 1 . Boniface assumes the Bene dictine habit, II. Departure of the saint from the monastery of Nuscella in Hampshire, on his way to Rome, to be consecrated apostle of the Germans (fine), Hess, 2. Arrival on the Roman coast. III. Pope Gregory II. receives him at the grave of St. Peter, and con secrates him, by Koch

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