BIBLIOGRAPHY xi I. HERMANN VISCHER AND THE EARLY GERMAN 1 BRONZE-WORK II. PETER VISCHER: HIS LIFE 9 III. THE EARLY WORKS OF PETER VISCHER 20 IV. THE SHRINE OF ST. SEBALD 36 V. THE TOMB OF MAXIMILIAN 64 VI. THE TUCHER MONUMENT AND THE NUREMBERG 72 MADONNA VII. THE MINOR WORKS OF PETER VISCHER THE 86 YOUNGER VIII. THE TOMB OF ELECTOR FREDERICK THE WISE, 101 AND THE RATHAUS RAILING IX. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VISCHER 119 X. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WORKS OF THE 130 VISCHERS CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF THE VISCHERS 133 Index 142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE PAGE 1. PORTRAIT OF PETER VISCHER Frontispiece 2. PETER VISCHER, THE CRAFTSMAN St. Sebald, 13 Nürnberg 3. TOMB OF ARCHBISHOP ERNST Cathedral, 23 Magdeburg 4. TOMB OF ARCHBISHOP ERNST Cathedral, 27 Magdeburg 5. ST. MAURICE Krafft House, Nürnberg 29 6. MONUMENT OF COUNT HERMANN VIII. Church, 31 Römhild 7. TOMB OF ST. SEBALD St. Sebald, Nürnberg 43 8. ST. PETER St. Sebald, Nürnberg 46 9. ST. SEBALD St. Sebald, Nürnberg 47 10. ST. SEBALD PUNISHES AN UNBELIEVER St. 55 Sebald, Nürnberg 11. ST. SEBALD HEALING THE BLIND MAN St. 57 Sebald, Nürnberg 12. ST. PAUL St. Sebald, Nürnberg 59 13. ST. BARTHOLOMEW St. Sebald, Nürnberg 61 14. THEODORIC, KING OF THE GOTHS Tomb of 68 Maximilian, Innsbruck 15. KING ARTHUR Tomb of Maximilian, 69 Innsbruck 16. MEETING OF CHRIST WITH THE SISTERS OF 75 LAZARUS Cathedral, Ratisbon 17. BEWEINUNG CHRISTI St. Ægidius, Nürnberg 79 18. THE NUREMBERG MADONNA Museum, Nürnberg 81 19. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Collection of M. 90 Dreyfus, Paris 20. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Museum, Berlin 93 21. EARTHLY LIFE (INKSTAND) Ashmolean 96 Museum, Oxford 22. HEAVENLY LIFE (INKSTAND) Ashmolean 97 Museum, Oxford