St. Lorenz in Nurnberg

by Marco Popp and Hartmut Scholz

Book cover: St. Lorenz in Nurnberg

Extent: 96 pages

Publisher: Schnell & Steiner

Subjects: Art & Art History

Series: Meisterwerke der Glasmalerei

Series volume number: 6

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(November 2015)

ISBN: 9783795430283

Price: $18.00

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English summary: With a total collection of about 750 individual components, St. Lorenz in Nuremburg numbers among the top ten most important glass-art locations in Germany. An essential part of the fame of the church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, much of the surviving glassware has come from the late medieval choir-windows, which immersed the sacred space in a colorful radiance, a meditative gloaming. German description: Mit einem Gesamtbestand von rund 750 Einzelfeldern zahlt St. Lorenz in Nurnberg zum Kreis der zehn bedeutendsten Glasmalerei-Standorte in Deutschland. Wesentlichen Anteil am Ruhm der Lorenzkirche hat die noch zu grossen Teilen bewahrte spatmittelalterliche Chorverglasung, die den Sakralraum in ein farbig leuchtendes, meditatives Dammerlicht taucht.

  • By (author) Marco Popp
  • By (author) Hartmut Scholz