Tag: Nuremberg

• The identity of Nuremberg’s Gänsemännchenbrunnen or Geeseman Fountain

  

  Identifying the person and purpose for one of Germany’s most famous Renaissance bronzes: the Gänsemännchen brunnen or Geeseman Fountain.

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  May 30, 2020

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  Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, Lucas Cranach, Martin Luther, Northern Renaissance, Nuremberg, Philipp Melanchthon, Renaissance Bronze, Renaissance Fountain

• The Earliest German Medal? Peter Vischer der Ältere’s Memorial Medaille to his first wife Margaretha

  

  A unique and modest medal depicting the bust of a German woman, dated 1490, could be the earliest medal made in Germany, depicting the first wife of the famed Nuremberg brass-worker, Peter Vischer the Elder.

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  May 16, 2020

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  15th century Nuremberg, German medals, German Renaissance Medals, Hermann Vischer the Younger, Johann Vischer, Nuremberg, Vischer Brass Workshop