Peter Vischer

by Cecil Headlam

Grave Plate of Bishop of Stadion. (Crucifix between Mary, John and two Bishops.)

St. Ægidius Church, Nuremberg, 1543.

Double Monument of Elector Joachim I. and Johann Cicero of Brandenburg. Signed “IOHANNES VISCHER. NORIC. FACIEB. 1530.” (The early portion probably in part designed by Peter the elder.)

Cathedral, Berlin.

HERMANN VISCHER.

The Apostle Bartholomew and other works on the Sebaldusgrab.

Nuremberg.

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INDEX

• Albrecht, Cardinal, tomb of, 86, 87, 102, 123.
• Allegory on the Reformation, aquarelle, 88.
• Apollo, statue of, 125, 126.
• Arthur, King, statue of, 66, 69, 70, 83, 131.
• Aschaffenburg, tomb of Cardinal Albrecht at, 86;
  • tablet at, 122, 123;
  • canopy over the tomb of St. Margaret at, 125.
• Bamberg, tomb-plates at, 6;
  • tomb of Bishop Heinrich III. at, 22, 30;
  • tomb of Bishop George II. at, 22, 30.
• Barbari, Jacopo de’, 15, 37, 52, 89, 125, 131.
• Baumgärtner, Lucas, 32.
• Berlin, tomb of the Elector Johann Cicero, in the Cathedral at, 123, 124.
• Boy with Bagpipes, 119, 120.
• Brandenburg, Magdalena, Countess of, 32, 33.
• Brandenburg, Elizabeth, Countess of, 33.
• Brandenburg, Cardinal Albrecht von, 86;
  • tomb-plate of, 86, 87.
• Breslau, tomb of Bishop John IV. at, 25.
• Bronze founding, in Germany, 4, 12, 128.
• Clussenbach, Georg and Martin von, 5.
• Cocleus, his Cosmographia quoted, 49.
• Decker, Hans, 6.
• Donatello, 70, 71, 131.
• Dreyfus, M., 89, 90.
• Dürer, Albert, 2, 3, 6, 32, 37, 51, 52, 64, 65, 76, 88, 89, 120, 131.
• Eissen Monument, the, 74, 77, 79.
• Eobanus Hessus, 56.
• Fortnum, H., 95.
• Frederick the Wise, 89;
  • monument of, 87, 101-106.
• Fugger Family, the, 110, 111.
• Goden, Henning, tablet to, 72, 73.
• Godl, Stefan, 65.
• Harsdorffer, Peter, 24.
• Hechingen, monument at, 30, 32, 33, 34.
• Henneberg, Count Otto IV. von, monument of, 20.
• Henneberg, Count Hermann VIII. von, monument of, 30, 31, 34.
• Hohenzollern, Count Eitel Friedrich II. von, monument of, 30, 32, 33.
• Holzschuher, Lazarus, 42.
• Imhof, Peter, 41, 42.
• Innsbruck, tomb of Maximilian at, 66.
• Joachim I., Prince, 124.
• John the Stable, Prince, memorial of, 106.
• Katzheimer, Wolfgang, 22, 30.
• Krafft, Adam, 3, 10, 14, 21, 24, 28, 36, 40, 56, 60, 64, 82.
• Lamberger, Simon, 22.
• Leonardo da Vinci, 39, 51, 78, 131.
• Lindenast, Sebastien, 10, 18, 40.
• Magdeburg, tomb of Archbishop Ernst at, 14, 15, 23-30, 58, 60, 62, 117.
• Maximilian, the Emperor, 64, 65;
  • visit to Peter Vischer, 65;
  • tomb of, 66.
• Mecklenburg, Duchess Helene von, tablet to, 105, 121, 122.
• Meissen, tomb-plates at, 6.
• Merseburg, tomb of Bishop Sigismund at, 122.
• Nuremberg, position of, 1, 2;
  • the Guild of Coppersmiths at, 6, 12, 87, 102, 104, 105, 106, 128;
  • the Rathaus Railing, 16, 41, 72, 109-118;
  • St. Ægidius, Church of, 74;
  • St. Sebald, Church of, font, 5;
  • “Crucifixion” outside, 7;
  • statue of Peter Vischer in, 3, 4, 13;
  • the shrine of St. Sebald, 15, 20, 21, 36, 41 et seq., 74, 76, 117, 131.
• “Nuremberg Madonna,” the, 80, 81.
• Orpheus and Eurydice, plaquettes, 40, 58, 77, 89-94.
• Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 95, 96, 97.
• Pfinzing, Melchior, 65.
• Philip, Elector-Palatine, 22, 105.
• Pirkheimer, Willibald, 2, 88.
• Prussia, Duke Albrecht of, and Peter Vischer the younger, 106, 107, 108.
• Ratisbon, Tucher Monument at, 7.
• Römhild, Monument at, 20, 30, 31.
• Sachs, Hans, 10, 88.
• St. Bartholomew, statue of, 61, 63.
• St. Maurice, statuettes of, 28, 29, 120.
• St. Paul, statue of, 59, 60.
• St. Peter, statue of, 46, 62, 63, 71.
• St. Sebald, statue of, 46, 47.
• St. Sebald’s Church—see Nuremberg.
• Sansovino, Andrea, 37, 39, 89, 98, 116, 131.
• Schedel, Weltchronik, 38.
• Schön, Martin, 15.
• Schreyer, Sebald, 38, 41.
• Schwenter, Pancratz, 38.
• Schwerin, tablet in the Cathedral at, 121, 122.
• Sebaldusgrab, the, 15, 36, 41 et seq., 74, 76, 117, 131;
  • model for, 20, 21.
• Stoss, Veit, 2, 21, 60, 64, 82.
• Theodoric, statue of, 66, 68, 71.
• Traut, Wolfgang, 41.
• Tucher, Anton, 41, 42.
• Tucher Monument, the, 73, 131.
• Vischer, Barbara, 17, 18.
• Vischer, Eberhard, 7.
• Vischer, Hans (the Founder), 10, 18, 106;
  • completion of the Rathaus Railing by 112;
  • inherits the foundry, 108, 120;
  • works by, 122-126;
  • leaves Nuremberg, 127, 128, 129.
• Vischer, Hermann (the elder), 1, 6, 7, 36, 62.
• Vischer, Hermann (the younger), journey to Rome, 15, 41, 110;
  • death of, 18, 41;
  • figure of St. Bartholomew by, 63.
• Vischer, Jakob, 17.
• Vischer, Paul, 17, 18, 108, 120.
• Vischer, Peter (the elder), statue of, 3, 4, 13;
  • birth and boyhood, 7, 9-11;
  • domestic life, 16-18;
  • early works, 20;
  • summoned to Heidelberg by the Elector Philip, 22;
  • return to Nuremberg, 24;
  • the tomb of Archbishop Ernst, 24;
  • monuments at Römhild and Hechingen, 30;
  • the shrine of St. Sebald, 36, 41 et seq.;
  • visited by Maximilian, 65;
  • figure of Theodoric, 67, 68, 71;
  • quarrel with the Fuggers, 110, 111;
  • death of, 111.
• Vischer, Peter (the younger), 8;
  • journey to Italy, 15, 38, 39, 40, 50;
  • medallions by, 16, 39, 40;
  • marriage of, 17;
  • death of, 18, 100;
  • his Orpheus and Eurydice plaquettes, 40, 58, 77, 89-94;
  • inkstands by, 40, 58, 84, 89, 95-100;
  • work on the Sebaldusgrab by, 58, 62, 77, 84;
  • statue of King Arthur, 67, 69, 70, 83;
  • the Tucher monument, 74, 75;
  • the Nuremberg Madonna attributed to, 82-85;
  • tomb-plate of Cardinal Albrecht, 86, 87;
  • aquarelle by, 88;
  • tomb of Elector Frederick, 101-106;
  • Duke Albrecht’s proposal to, 106-108.
• Wittenberg, font at, 6, 7, 62;
  • tablet at, 72, 73;
  • monument of the Elector Frederick at, 101.
• Wolgemut, Michel, 3, 15, 36, 38, 45, 76.
• Würzburg, tomb of Bishop Lorenz of Bibra at, 123.