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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Upper part of the middle gateway: the gateway of Honour and Might. Reduced in size. From the heavy garland of the laurels, from which cranes are picking at berries, hangs a jewel, which is composed of a casket and a winged woman with a crown.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Part of the centre gateway in its original size.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Pedestral of the right hand middle column.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Base of the right hand middle column. Cranes with shells, vine leaves with pea pods bursting, sirens (symbolic of the vice of lust, which the Emperor resisted, when he gave the prize of honour), a wreath of lilies of the valley. Above is plainly visible the beginning of another block, cut by a different hand.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Capital and ornament over the niche of the left central column. The corners of the capital are not made of volutes but of lions' heads, and in the centre is a crane. The eagle of the escutcheon is badly drawn and not in perspective.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

The Great Triumphal Car. 1522 (1518). First sheet (reduced in size): Back part of the imperial car. Victory decorating the Emperor with a laurel wreath. On the feathers of her wings his victories are written. Behind him stand two of the cardinal virtues: Justice and Temperance. Woodcut printed from eight blocks. Woodcut (1.block); 453 X 301mm.
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The Great Triumphal Car. 1522 (1518). First sheet (reduced in size): Back part...

The Great Triumphal Car. 1522 (1518). First sheet (original size): Back part of the imperial car. Victory decorating the Emperor with a laurel wreath. On the feathers of her wings his victories are written. Behind him stand two of the cardinal virtues: Justice and Temperance. Woodcut printed from eight blocks. Woodcut (1.block); 453 X 301mm.
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The Great Triumphal Car. 1522 (1518). First sheet (original size): Back part of...

Coat of Arms of Johannes Stabius (with laurel wreath). Around 1514-1518. Woodcut, 296 x 190mm.
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Coat of Arms of Johannes Stabius (with laurel wreath). Around 1514-1518. Woodcu...

Allegory with the Coat of Arms of the Empire and of the City of Nuremberg. (Title page of the book "Die Reformation der Stadt Nuernberg", printed by Friedrich Peypus, Nuremberg, 20 January 1522). Woodcut, 246 x 170mm. (fol. AA1v.)
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Allegory with the Coat of Arms of the Empire and of the City of Nuremberg. (Titl...

The priest is lying in the meadow, a raven is croaking on a hollow stone. Woodcut from "Die Geschicht des Pfarrers vom Kalenberg" by Philipp Frankfurter (ca.1486-ca.1511). Published by Peter Wagner, Nuremberg, 1489/90.
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The priest is lying in the meadow, a raven is croaking on a hollow stone. Woodcu...

Vom vffschlag suchen (Vom Hinausschieben auf morgen). Illustration to "Das Narrenschiff" by Sebastian Brant. Published by Johann Bergmann von Olpe, Basel, 11 February 1494. Woodcut, 116 x 84mm. (fol.E7v., Chapter 31)
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Vom vffschlag suchen (Vom Hinausschieben auf morgen). Illustration to "Das Narre...

Narr hur als vern (Ein Narr sein und es bleiben). Illustration to "Das Narrenschiff" by Sebastian Brant. Published by Johann Bergmann von Olpe, Basel, 11 February 1494. Woodcut, 116 x 84mm. (fol.F3v., Chapter 34)
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Narr hur als vern (Ein Narr sein und es bleiben). Illustration to "Das Narrensch...