. The grammar of ornament . Germany andFlanders to study in the great Italian ateliers. Among them, men like Eoger of Bruges, who spentmuch of his life in Italy, and died in 1464,—Hemskerk, and Albert Diirer, more especially influencedtheir countrymen. The latter, who in many of his engravings showed a perfect apprehension of theconditions of Italian design, leaning now to the Gothic manner of his master Wohlgemuth, and nowto the Eaffaellesque simplicity of Marc Antonio. The spread of the engravings of the latter, however,in Germany, unquestionably conduced to the formation of the taste of men
. The grammar of ornament . Germany andFlanders to study in the great Italian ateliers. Among them, men like Eoger of Bruges, who spentmuch of his life in Italy, and died in 1464,—Hemskerk, and Albert Diirer, more especially influencedtheir countrymen. The latter, who in many of his engravings showed a perfect apprehension of theconditions of Italian design, leaning now to the Gothic manner of his master Wohlgemuth, and nowto the Eaffaellesque simplicity of Marc Antonio. The spread of the engravings of the latter, however,in Germany, unquestionably conduced to the formation of the taste of men who, like Peter Vischer,first brought Italian plastic art into fashion in Germany. Even at its best the Eenaissance ofGermany is impure—her industrious affection for difficulties of the hand, rather than of the head,soon led her into crinkum-crankums; and strap-work, jewelled forms, and complicated monsters, ratheranimated than graceful, took the place of the refined elegance of the early Italian and
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