Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . oetry or Philosophy, which wasfounded on the initiative of Conrad Celtis in 1496 and helped the Humanistmovement so much, was established in its top story in 1498. All these buildings date from the last decade of the 15 ^ century andwere the work of the genial architect Hans Beheim the elder, who, after 48 yearsas an architect in the service of the town, died in 1538. His artistic style, marked by great practical fitness and a sure feeling for 64 HANS BEHEIM THE ELDER. beauty, is best manifested in the parts built by him of the Town Hall,
Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . oetry or Philosophy, which wasfounded on the initiative of Conrad Celtis in 1496 and helped the Humanistmovement so much, was established in its top story in 1498. All these buildings date from the last decade of the 15 ^ century andwere the work of the genial architect Hans Beheim the elder, who, after 48 yearsas an architect in the service of the town, died in 1538. His artistic style, marked by great practical fitness and a sure feeling for 64 HANS BEHEIM THE ELDER. beauty, is best manifested in the parts built by him of the Town Hall, to whichadditions were made, inside and out, after the beginning of the i6^ pointed arched entrance in the Rathausgasse (Town Hall Street) withits intersecting mouldings, its group of three coats of arms, and the scrolls(with the date 1515) entwined round them, remind one greatly of the doorwayof the Custom House and show that the passage of years did not alter themasters artistic methods. They are still genuinely Gothic and show no trace. Fig. 38. Courtyard ox no. 26, by F. Schmidt. of the Classic influences observable in Nuremberg art from the beginningof the 16^^ century. Mouldings and tracery are the elements of decoration thathe uses, the latter richly varied and generally flamboyant in character. Onlyto this extent does he pay homage to the taste of the time, that he some-times changes geometric forms into naturalistic branch-work, as in part of thebalustrade, pierced in beautiful tracery, of the great court yard of the TownHall,—where the balcony is carried by slender columns, or banded clusters ofthem, resting on corbels (fig. 36), — or on the middle post of the two-windowed,right-angled oriel of the little courtyard, decorated with applied tracery. This HANS TIIK courtyard with its staircase set in one corner has an especially picturesqueappearance. The porch of the part alongside the great Hall, projecting int
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