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Shrine of St Sebald

1510s
Bronze
Sebaldskirche, Nuremberg

The attachment to Gothic forms and traditions in the first decades of the 16th century is remarkably illustrated in the great bronze shrine of St Sebald of the Church of the Saint in Nuremberg. Here we find purely Gothic housing, architectural design and figures suddenly combined with small individual sculptures by the Vischer workshop that are truly Renaissance in spirit and of extremely high quality.