Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . Fig. 41. Madonna from the House of Veit by Fig. 42. Houses on the bank of the Pegnitz, opposite the by F, Schmidt. SCULPTURE IN THE 15™ CENTURY AND EARLY RENAISSANCE, WITH A NOTE ON THE HUMANISTS AT NUREMBERG. A S has been said, it had already become customary in the 14^ centuryto set up, on the corners of houses, a statue of the Madonna or of apatron saint, but of these figures by far the greater number belong tothe 15 ^^ century, and even to its latest years. Among them occur artisticworks o
Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . Fig. 41. Madonna from the House of Veit by Fig. 42. Houses on the bank of the Pegnitz, opposite the by F, Schmidt. SCULPTURE IN THE 15™ CENTURY AND EARLY RENAISSANCE, WITH A NOTE ON THE HUMANISTS AT NUREMBERG. A S has been said, it had already become customary in the 14^ centuryto set up, on the corners of houses, a statue of the Madonna or of apatron saint, but of these figures by far the greater number belong tothe 15 ^^ century, and even to its latest years. Among them occur artisticworks of the highest class. The robust Madonna at 13, Kaiserstrasse, is ofthe beginning of the century, and the Madonna of 16, Obstmarkt, spoilt bycrude painting, is not much later in date. The Madonna statues at 20, Dotsch-mannsplatz and 3, Winklerstrasse are also works of the first half of the15^ century, and so are the representations of St. Sebald at 2 and 4, Theresien-platz and 15, Winklerstrasse, and the figure of St. Nicholas at 13, Tucher-strasse. All these works still show a certain want of simplicity and a great 70
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