Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . Fig. Si. ^urer: St. Paul and St. Mark. the Pinacothek, Munich, 124 ALBERT deceived. So thereforetruly art is to be foundin nature, and he has it,who can pluck it these words is the keyto the understanding andfull evaluation of Diirersart. His was an incessantwrestling with Nature,earnest and strenuous, totear beauty from her. Itwas a holy struggle, likeJacobs, when he wrestledwith the Angel and said:I will not let thee go,except thou bless rose a glorious sun,the sun of German art,dispelling every mist a
Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . Fig. Si. ^urer: St. Paul and St. Mark. the Pinacothek, Munich, 124 ALBERT deceived. So thereforetruly art is to be foundin nature, and he has it,who can pluck it these words is the keyto the understanding andfull evaluation of Diirersart. His was an incessantwrestling with Nature,earnest and strenuous, totear beauty from her. Itwas a holy struggle, likeJacobs, when he wrestledwith the Angel and said:I will not let thee go,except thou bless rose a glorious sun,the sun of German art,dispelling every mist andveiling cloud. It wasthrough Diirer that it wasmade manifest, what Ger-man art is; and of all thetrue, beautiful and greatachievements of Nurem-berg Art, Diirers worksmust be named absolutelyfirst. They mark its sum-mit, and that is at thesame time the highest levelattained by German Diirer, the onlyone to reach it has beenHans Holbein, the friendof Erasmus and akin tohim in genius. He wasquite differently constituted to Diirer, and he produces his effect on us by quite different artistic number of Diirers own pu
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