Nuremberg (Germany) -- Description and travel; Nuremberg (Germany) -- History
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ROOMS 10-13.
A very fine collection of characteristic stoves and tiles. The
latter, used for covering the walls and floors, took the place of
mosaics and are ornamented with leaf-work, stars, rosettes,
coats-of-arms or grotesques. The tiles of the stoves, which should
be compared with those in the Castle and the Rathaus, were made, in
the fifteenth century, to represent chiefly mythological subjects,
whilst the seventeenth-century ones betray, as we should expect,
Italian influence. A green stove with concave plates (Room 12) and
an eighteenth-century rococco specimen (Room 13), from the house of
the Löffelholz family are remarkable.
ROOMS 14, 15.
contain some beautiful examples of the locksmith's art; locks,
keys, hinges, knockers, and knocker plates, exquisite in
workmanship and in design. We have here a real lesson in ironwork,
a perfect education in hinges.
ROOM 16.
is the Wilhelms-halle, so-called after Emperor Wilhelm I. It
contains a window given by him in 1860, when he was still only King
of Prussia. Passing by this and the Hohenzollern-halle opposite and
going down the Ludwigsgang, built by the aid of Ludwig of Bavaria
(1870) we come to the Reichs-hof, a court (left) in which stands a
gigantic cast of the Roland in the market-place of Bremen. Rooms
18-25 are called the Victoria and Friedrich Wilhelm buildings.
(More tombs and casts.) On the right of the corridor (Room 26)
there now begins a very interesting collection of stained glass
which is arranged chronologically. (Twelfth to sixteenth-century
glass here.)
ROOMS 27, 28.
The old Refectory of the monks serves now as the home for a
collection of German and Italian pottery, majolica and faience,
porcelain, glass and stoneware. (German faience, first half of
sixteenth century. Augustin Hirschvogel and Nuremberg work, Room
27, cabinets 9 and 16.) Pewter work, end of sixteenth century, by
Kaspar Endterlein (Room 28, cabinets 4, 5). English Wedgewood
(cabinet 6).
ROOM 29 (Cloister).
Bronze epitaphs from Nuremberg tombstones (_cf._ St. John's
Churchyard).
ROOM 32 (Kirche)
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