See also:KRAFFT (or KRAFT), See also:ADAM (c. 1455-1507)
, See also:German sculptor, of the See also:Nuremberg school, was See also:born, probably at Nuremberg, about the See also:middle of the 15th See also:century, and died, some say in the See also:hospital, at See also:Schwabach, about 1507
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He seems to have emerged as sculptor about 1490, the date of the seven reliefs of scenes from the See also:life of See also:Christ, which, like almost every other specimen of his See also:work, are at Nuremberg
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The date of his last work, an Entombment, with fifteen life-See also:size figures, in the Holzschuher See also:chapel of the St See also:John's See also:cemetery, is 1507
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Besides these, See also:Krafft's See also:chief See also:works are several monumental reliefs in the various churches of Nuremberg; he produced the See also:great See also:Schreyer See also:monument (1492) for St Sebald's at Nuremberg, a skilful though mannered piece of See also:sculpture opposite the Rathaus, with realistic figures in the See also:costume of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, carved in a way more suited to See also:wood than See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, and too pictorial in effect; Christ bearing the See also:Cross, above the See also:altar of the same See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church; and various works made for public and private buildings, as the See also:relief over the See also:door of the Wagehaus, a St See also:George and the See also:Dragon, several Madonnas, and some purely decorative pieces, as coats of arms
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His See also:master-piece is perhaps the magnificent See also:tabernacle, 62 ft. high, in the church of St Laurence (1493-1500)
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He also made the great tabernacle for the See also:Host, 8o ft. high, covered with statuettes, in See also:Ulm See also:Cathedral, and the very spirited " Stations of the Cross " on the road to the Nuremberg cemetery
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See See also:Adam Krafft and See also:seine Schule, by See also:Friedrich Wanderer (1869) ; Adam Krafft and See also:die Kiinstler seiner Zeit, by Berthold See also:Daun (1897); See also:Albert Giimbel in Repertorium fu.r Kunstwissenschaft, Bd. See also:xxv
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Heft 5, 1902
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