Gothic and the Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550.

Gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. // INHALT : Lenders List Directors' Foreword Acknowledgments -- Alfred Wenderhorst -- Nuremberg, the Imperial City: -- From Its Beginnings to the End of Its Glory -- Hermann Maue -- Nuremberg's Cityscape and Architecture -- Rainer Brandl -- Art or Craft? Art and the Artist in Medieval Nuremberg -- Rainer Kahsnitz -- Sculpture in Stone, Terracotta, and Wood -- William D.Wixom -- The Art of Nuremberg Brass Work -- Kurt Locker -- Panel Painting in Nuremberg: 1350-1550 -- Rainer Kahsnitz -- Stained Glass in Nuremberg -- Rainer Schoch -- A Century of Nuremberg Printmaking -- Johann Willers Armor of Nuremberg -- Hermann Maue -- The Development of Renaissance Portrait Medals in Germany -- Catalogue -- Biographies of the Artists -- Bibliography. // Both this book and the exhibition, Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, document the artistic vitality of one of the most influential urban centers in Europe to arise at the end of the Middle Ages. The selection of specific works of art, and the essays that illuminate them, give a clear focus to the period from the fourteenth through the first half of the sixteenth century. This was a transitional and pivotal time for Nuremberg in its evolution from an important but artistically self-contained Late Gothic town to a Renaissance city, whose artistic, humanistic, technological, and scientific endeavors were of far-reaching consequence. The production of works of art - including some of the highest moments of human achievement - paralleled the city's strengthening commercial position. The benevolent yet firm hand of a patrician government produced a stable environment, while members of the great families became the leading patrons. The present occasion is a special "first" in several respects. Never before has such a constellation of fine Medieval and Renaissance objects been permitted to leave Germany for exhibition in the United States. This event provides the American public with a unique opportunity to study and enjoy a historic sampling of Nuremberg's past. Included here are objects created by important anonymous masters, such as the so-called "Hansel" Fountain Figure and the Schliisselfelder Ship, along with major groups of works by such celebrated Nuremberg artists as Veit Stoss, Albrecht Diirer, Hans Suess von Kulmbach, Hans Baldung Grien, Peter Vischer the Elder and his sons, and Peter Flotner. Much of this art, which belongs to the museums and churches of Nuremberg, and to the city itself, is the nucleus of both this catalogue and the exhibition that it accompanies. (Vorwort) ISBN 0870994662