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Down below looms the mighty Golden Gate of the Cathedral of Freiberg, covered with intricate sculptures. Peter Vischer's Tomb of St. Sebald, with its majestic figures of the Twelve Apostles-- and his own aproned self down in one corner-- towers to the ceiling. After contemplating these Paul Kleinschmidt's twentieth-century "Tittering Woman," is irritating, although friends assure me that it too is art. But Albrecht Durer's "Geometry and Perspective", Nuremberg 1525, soon restores my good humour, and, at peace with myself and the world, I look out the window at the great bronze lion guarding the court...
...century, the greatest artists of the time as Durer and Holbein made designs to be cut in the block, and the cutting was done by the professional woodcutter of the day. A group of German books exhibited includes Durer's Small Passion and Apocalypse, the Luther Bible, with Hans Sebald Beham's woodcuts, and books with illustrations by Baldung, Burgkmair, and Wechtlin. There are some eight books illustrated by Welditz, that very charming the human artist who introduces us to the everyday life of the people as no other artists of the period...
Among the books shown are Durer's "Small Passion" and "Apocalypse," Rolbein's "Dance of Death" and Old Testament, and Luther's Bible, illustrated with woodcuts by Hans Sebald Beham, and the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid...