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Fireplace door on the second floor

Fireplace door on the second floor Overall

Fireplace door on the second floor

1606

Overall


One of the four elaborately designed fireplaces in the front building, made for Martin Peller. Here, depicting Zeus hurling lightning and riding an eagle (Zeus fireplace). ___________ Image of the graphic from: Nuremberg's Renaissance Monuments. Photographed and edited by August Ortwein, Director of the Imperial and Royal Trade School in Graz. Separate reprint from the complete works "German Renaissance." Published with the assistance of fellow experts, Leipzig: Published by E. A. Seemann, 1878 (Nuremberg, City Library, Amb. 729 / 2°) _____________________ The execution of the ornamentation seems to suggest a knowledge of the Architectvra book by Wendel Dietterlin, printed in Nuremberg in 1598: (see also: ARCHITECTURA by Wendel Dietterlin) Architectvra. On the distribution, symmetry, and proportion of the five columns, and all the resulting artistic work, on windows, chimneys, doorways, portals, fountains, and epitaphs. (…) Printed in Nuremberg by Hubrecht and Balthasar Caymox (See also: Balthasar Caymox) 1598 _________________ "Hans Werner seems to have enjoyed Martin Peller's special esteem, as he was one of the few, along with the master builder Jakob Wolff the Elder, the carpenter Peter Carl, and the joiner Lorenz Bayr, to receive a homage from Peller in addition to his payment in 1609." (On 3 January, the young master Hansen paid tribute to the stonemason on 24.-.-. / StadtAN E 19 No. 20, fol. 46. Quoted from Dieter Büchner: The "Beautiful Room" from the Pellerhaus (Nürnberger Werkstücke 55), Nuremberg 1995)

Location: Nuremberg, Friends of the Old Town, Image Archive

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Werner, Hans

Depicted: Peller, Martin I, Ortwein, August

photo

Fireplace door on the second floor Overall

Fireplace door on the second floor

1606

Overall


One of the four elaborately designed fireplaces in the front building, made for Martin Peller. Here, depicting Zeus hurling lightning and riding an eagle (Zeus fireplace). ___________ Image of the graphic from: Nuremberg's Renaissance Monuments. Photographed and edited by August Ortwein, Director of the Imperial and Royal Trade School in Graz. Separate reprint from the complete works "German Renaissance." Published with the assistance of fellow experts, Leipzig: Published by E. A. Seemann, 1878 (Nuremberg, City Library, Amb. 729 / 2°) _____________________ The execution of the ornamentation seems to suggest a knowledge of the Architectvra book by Wendel Dietterlin, printed in Nuremberg in 1598: (see also: ARCHITECTURA by Wendel Dietterlin) Architectvra. On the distribution, symmetry, and proportion of the five columns, and all the resulting artistic work, on windows, chimneys, doorways, portals, fountains, and epitaphs. (…) Printed in Nuremberg by Hubrecht and Balthasar Caymox (See also: Balthasar Caymox) 1598 _________________ "Hans Werner seems to have enjoyed Martin Peller's special esteem, as he was one of the few, along with the master builder Jakob Wolff the Elder, the carpenter Peter Carl, and the joiner Lorenz Bayr, to receive a homage from Peller in addition to his payment in 1609." (On 3 January, the young master Hansen paid tribute to the stonemason on 24.-.-. / StadtAN E 19 No. 20, fol. 46. Quoted from Dieter Büchner: The "Beautiful Room" from the Pellerhaus (Nürnberger Werkstücke 55), Nuremberg 1995)

Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Amb 729.2°

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Werner, Hans

Depicted: Peller, Martin I, Ortwein, August

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Fireplace door on the second floor Detail

Fireplace door on the second floor

1606

Detail


One of the four elaborately designed fireplaces in the front building, made for Martin Peller. Here, depicting Zeus hurling lightning and riding an eagle (Zeus fireplace). ___________ Image of the graphic from: Nuremberg's Renaissance Monuments. Photographed and edited by August Ortwein, Director of the Imperial and Royal Trade School in Graz. Separate reprint from the complete works "German Renaissance." Published with the assistance of fellow experts, Leipzig: Published by E. A. Seemann, 1878 (Nuremberg, City Library, Amb. 729 / 2°) _____________________ The execution of the ornamentation seems to suggest a knowledge of the Architectvra book by Wendel Dietterlin, printed in Nuremberg in 1598: (see also: ARCHITECTURA by Wendel Dietterlin) Architectvra. On the distribution, symmetry, and proportion of the five columns, and all the resulting artistic work, on windows, chimneys, doorways, portals, fountains, and epitaphs. (…) Printed in Nuremberg by Hubrecht and Balthasar Caymox (See also: Balthasar Caymox) 1598 _________________ "Hans Werner seems to have enjoyed Martin Peller's special esteem, as he was one of the few, along with the master builder Jakob Wolff the Elder, the carpenter Peter Carl, and the joiner Lorenz Bayr, to receive a homage from Peller in addition to his payment in 1609." (On 3 January, the young master Hansen paid tribute to the stonemason on 24.-.-. / StadtAN E 19 No. 20, fol. 46. Quoted from Dieter Büchner: The "Beautiful Room" from the Pellerhaus (Nürnberger Werkstücke 55), Nuremberg 1995)

Location: Nuremberg, Friends of the Old Town, Image Archive

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Werner, Hans

Depicted: Peller, Martin I, Ortwein, August

photo

Fireplace door on the second floor Detail

Fireplace door on the second floor

1606

Detail


One of the four elaborately designed fireplaces in the front building, made for Martin Peller. Here, depicting Zeus hurling lightning and riding an eagle (Zeus fireplace). ___________ Image of the graphic from: Nuremberg's Renaissance Monuments. Photographed and edited by August Ortwein, Director of the Imperial and Royal Trade School in Graz. Separate reprint from the complete works "German Renaissance." Published with the assistance of fellow experts, Leipzig: Published by E. A. Seemann, 1878 (Nuremberg, City Library, Amb. 729 / 2°) _____________________ The execution of the ornamentation seems to suggest a knowledge of the Architectvra book by Wendel Dietterlin, printed in Nuremberg in 1598: (see also: ARCHITECTURA by Wendel Dietterlin) Architectvra. On the distribution, symmetry, and proportion of the five columns, and all the resulting artistic work, on windows, chimneys, doorways, portals, fountains, and epitaphs. (…) Printed in Nuremberg by Hubrecht and Balthasar Caymox (See also: Balthasar Caymox) 1598 _________________ "Hans Werner seems to have enjoyed Martin Peller's special esteem, as he was one of the few, along with the master builder Jakob Wolff the Elder, the carpenter Peter Carl, and the joiner Lorenz Bayr, to receive a homage from Peller in addition to his payment in 1609." (On 3 January, the young master Hansen paid tribute to the stonemason on 24.-.-. / StadtAN E 19 No. 20, fol. 46. Quoted from Dieter Büchner: The "Beautiful Room" from the Pellerhaus (Nürnberger Werkstücke 55), Nuremberg 1995)

Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Amb 729.2°

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Werner, Hans

Depicted: Peller, Martin I, Ortwein, August

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Fireplace door on the second floor Detail

Fireplace door on the second floor

1606

Detail


One of the four elaborately designed fireplaces in the front building, made for Martin Peller. Here, depicting Zeus hurling lightning and riding an eagle (Zeus fireplace). ___________ Image of the graphic from: Nuremberg's Renaissance Monuments. Photographed and edited by August Ortwein, Director of the Imperial and Royal Trade School in Graz. Separate reprint from the complete works "German Renaissance." Published with the assistance of fellow experts, Leipzig: Published by E. A. Seemann, 1878 (Nuremberg, City Library, Amb. 729 / 2°) _____________________ The execution of the ornamentation seems to suggest a knowledge of the Architectvra book by Wendel Dietterlin, printed in Nuremberg in 1598: (see also: ARCHITECTURA by Wendel Dietterlin) Architectvra. On the distribution, symmetry, and proportion of the five columns, and all the resulting artistic work, on windows, chimneys, doorways, portals, fountains, and epitaphs. (…) Printed in Nuremberg by Hubrecht and Balthasar Caymox (See also: Balthasar Caymox) 1598 _________________ "Hans Werner seems to have enjoyed Martin Peller's special esteem, as he was one of the few, along with the master builder Jakob Wolff the Elder, the carpenter Peter Carl, and the joiner Lorenz Bayr, to receive a homage from Peller in addition to his payment in 1609." (On 3 January, the young master Hansen paid tribute to the stonemason on 24.-.-. / StadtAN E 19 No. 20, fol. 46. Quoted from Dieter Büchner: The "Beautiful Room" from the Pellerhaus (Nürnberger Werkstücke 55), Nuremberg 1995)

Location: Nuremberg, Friends of the Old Town, Image Archive

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Werner, Hans

Depicted: Peller, Martin I, Ortwein, August

photo

Fireplace door on the second floor Detail

Fireplace door on the second floor

1606

Detail


One of the four elaborately designed fireplaces in the front building, made for Martin Peller. Here, depicting Zeus hurling lightning and riding an eagle (Zeus fireplace). ___________ Image of the graphic from: Nuremberg's Renaissance Monuments. Photographed and edited by August Ortwein, Director of the Imperial and Royal Trade School in Graz. Separate reprint from the complete works "German Renaissance." Published with the assistance of fellow experts, Leipzig: Published by E. A. Seemann, 1878 (Nuremberg, City Library, Amb. 729 / 2°) _____________________ The execution of the ornamentation seems to suggest a knowledge of the Architectvra book by Wendel Dietterlin, printed in Nuremberg in 1598: (see also: ARCHITECTURA by Wendel Dietterlin) Architectvra. On the distribution, symmetry, and proportion of the five columns, and all the resulting artistic work, on windows, chimneys, doorways, portals, fountains, and epitaphs. (…) Printed in Nuremberg by Hubrecht and Balthasar Caymox (See also: Balthasar Caymox) 1598 _________________ "Hans Werner seems to have enjoyed Martin Peller's special esteem, as he was one of the few, along with the master builder Jakob Wolff the Elder, the carpenter Peter Carl, and the joiner Lorenz Bayr, to receive a homage from Peller in addition to his payment in 1609." (On 3 January, the young master Hansen paid tribute to the stonemason on 24.-.-. / StadtAN E 19 No. 20, fol. 46. Quoted from Dieter Büchner: The "Beautiful Room" from the Pellerhaus (Nürnberger Werkstücke 55), Nuremberg 1995)

Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Amb 729.2°

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Werner, Hans

Depicted: Peller, Martin I, Ortwein, August

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Fireplace door on the second floor Detail

Fireplace door on the second floor

1606

Detail


One of the four elaborately designed fireplaces in the front building, made for Martin Peller. Here, depicting Zeus hurling lightning and riding an eagle (Zeus fireplace). ___________ Image of the graphic from: Nuremberg's Renaissance Monuments. Photographed and edited by August Ortwein, Director of the Imperial and Royal Trade School in Graz. Separate reprint from the complete works "German Renaissance." Published with the assistance of fellow experts, Leipzig: Published by E. A. Seemann, 1878 (Nuremberg, City Library, Amb. 729 / 2°) _____________________ The execution of the ornamentation seems to suggest a knowledge of the Architectvra book by Wendel Dietterlin, printed in Nuremberg in 1598: (see also: ARCHITECTURA by Wendel Dietterlin) Architectvra. On the distribution, symmetry, and proportion of the five columns, and all the resulting artistic work, on windows, chimneys, doorways, portals, fountains, and epitaphs. (…) Printed in Nuremberg by Hubrecht and Balthasar Caymox (See also: Balthasar Caymox) 1598 _________________ "Hans Werner seems to have enjoyed Martin Peller's special esteem, as he was one of the few, along with the master builder Jakob Wolff the Elder, the carpenter Peter Carl, and the joiner Lorenz Bayr, to receive a homage from Peller in addition to his payment in 1609." (On 3 January, the young master Hansen paid tribute to the stonemason on 24.-.-. / StadtAN E 19 No. 20, fol. 46. Quoted from Dieter Büchner: The "Beautiful Room" from the Pellerhaus (Nürnberger Werkstücke 55), Nuremberg 1995)

Location: Nuremberg, Friends of the Old Town, Image Archive

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Werner, Hans

Depicted: Peller, Martin I, Ortwein, August

photo

Fireplace door on the second floor Detail

Fireplace door on the second floor

1606

Detail


One of the four elaborately designed fireplaces in the front building, made for Martin Peller. Here, depicting Zeus hurling lightning and riding an eagle (Zeus fireplace). ___________ Image of the graphic from: Nuremberg's Renaissance Monuments. Photographed and edited by August Ortwein, Director of the Imperial and Royal Trade School in Graz. Separate reprint from the complete works "German Renaissance." Published with the assistance of fellow experts, Leipzig: Published by E. A. Seemann, 1878 (Nuremberg, City Library, Amb. 729 / 2°) _____________________ The execution of the ornamentation seems to suggest a knowledge of the Architectvra book by Wendel Dietterlin, printed in Nuremberg in 1598: (see also: ARCHITECTURA by Wendel Dietterlin) Architectvra. On the distribution, symmetry, and proportion of the five columns, and all the resulting artistic work, on windows, chimneys, doorways, portals, fountains, and epitaphs. (…) Printed in Nuremberg by Hubrecht and Balthasar Caymox (See also: Balthasar Caymox) 1598 _________________ "Hans Werner seems to have enjoyed Martin Peller's special esteem, as he was one of the few, along with the master builder Jakob Wolff the Elder, the carpenter Peter Carl, and the joiner Lorenz Bayr, to receive a homage from Peller in addition to his payment in 1609." (On 3 January, the young master Hansen paid tribute to the stonemason on 24.-.-. / StadtAN E 19 No. 20, fol. 46. Quoted from Dieter Büchner: The "Beautiful Room" from the Pellerhaus (Nürnberger Werkstücke 55), Nuremberg 1995)

Location: Nuremberg, City Library, Amb 729.2°

Design: Werner, Hans

Realization: Werner, Hans

Depicted: Peller, Martin I, Ortwein, August

photo 2022, Theo Noll

Martin I
Peller

Further works

Epitaph of Martin Peller (died 1629) and his wife Maria Viatis (died 1641)
Epitaph of Martin Peller (died 1629) and his wife Maria Viatis (died 1641)
Peller House
Peller House
Ceiling of the beautiful room
Ceiling of the beautiful room
Fireplace door on the second floor
Fireplace door on the second floor
Former municipal library / former Peller house
Former municipal library / former Peller house

Hans
Werner

Further works

Mengersdorf-Epitaph
Mengersdorf-Epitaph
Epitaph for Hieronymus Kress von Kressenstein
Epitaph for Hieronymus Kress von Kressenstein
Portal with oxen on the meat bridge
Portal with oxen on the meat bridge
Butcher´s Fountain
Butcher´s Fountain
Fireplace door on the second floor
Fireplace door on the second floor
High Altar
High Altar
Wilhelm von Streitberg and his wife Anna
Wilhelm von Streitberg and his wife Anna

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