After 1500 the vine-stem style
seems to have gradually died out, and thenceforward only varieties of
the revived antique became the fashion.
To the Italian Renaissance we shall revert in a later chapter.
CHAPTER VII
GERMAN ILLUMINATION FROM THE THIRTEENTH TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Frederick II., _Stupor Mundi_, and his MS. on hunting--The Sicilian
school mainly Saracenic, but a mixture of Greek, Arabic, and Latin
tastes--The Franconian Emperors at Bamberg--Charles of Anjou--The House
of Luxembourg at Prag--MSS. in the University Library--The Collegium
Carolinum of the Emperor Charles IV.--MSS. at Vienna--The Wenzel
Bible--The Weltchronik of Rudolf v. Ems at Stuttgard--Wilhelm v. Oranse
at Vienna--The Golden Bull--Various schools--Hildesheimer Prayer-book at
Berlin--The Nuremberg school--The Glockendons--The Brethren of the Pen.
In a former chapter we brought up the story of German illumination to
the time of the Hohenstaufen emperors. We may now make a new start with
Frederick II., the eccentric, resolute, intractable, accomplished
_Stupor Mundi_ (1210-50). Not only was he a patron and encouraged art,
but also an author. The work which he composed is still extant, and is
preserved in the Vatican Library under the title _De arte venandi cum
avibus_.
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