Handbook of the Germanic museum Author:Kuno Francke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n MONUMENTAL GERMAN SCULPTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE By far the largest part of the Museum is devoted to monumental German sculpture ... more »of the Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance periods; indeed, it may be said that there are few museums either in America or Europe where this phase of the history of German culture is as impressively represented as here. Most of the largest casts of these monuments were given by the German Emperor; many important gifts from American citizens also and from princes and governments and other friends of the Museum in Germany and Switzerland are included in this section.1 The background of this remarkable collection is formed by some two hundred large photographs (chiefly from the Staatliche Messbildanstalt at Berlin) of German architectural masterpieces from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, including views of exteriors and interiors of the principal German cathedrals, castles, city halls, guild halls, and patrician houses. These photographs are hung in the suite of small roomsif the Renaissance Hall. 1. All these casts have been tinted in the colors of the originals, with the advice of Mr. I. M. Gaugengigl of Boston, by Mr. F. W. Miller of Providence, R. I. ? Names of the donors of the individual casts, as well as statements about purchases of our own, are to be found in my various Annual Reports. Rg, near Schlettstadt in cct types of secular me- intended as a part of the 'ion of monumental casts, ved by reproductions, in hotographs, and colored inesque mural paintings ow panels from Austrian Gothic and Renaissance itings of the Flemish and reproductions are to be the Museum, iiimental sculptures, ex- ns, belongs to the ancient i1 at the beginning of the !igh the efforts of Bishop cable plastic a...« less