"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the models of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical skill. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) to allow more natural light into the room was already well established. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in St. Roch's Chapel have survived." ...

The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the history of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family. All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and then to Ursula Nützel. The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the conversion to Catholicism!

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra

References: -

The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021 - Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the models of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical skill. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) to allow more natural light into the room was already well established. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in St. Roch's Chapel have survived." ...

The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the history of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family. All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and then to Ursula Nützel. The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the conversion to Catholicism!

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra

References: -

The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021 - Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the models of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical skill. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) to allow more natural light into the room was already well established. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in St. Roch's Chapel have survived." ...

The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the history of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family. All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and then to Ursula Nützel. The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the conversion to Catholicism!

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra

References: -

The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021 - Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002

"Their creator was Veit Hirsvogel the Elder (1461–1526), ​​who became the city's glazier in 1495 and achieved a kind of monopoly on demanding commissions. He followed only the models of prominent artists: Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans von Kulmbach, which is reflected in the outstanding graphic quality of his glasswork, remarkable both in its color and technical skill. It is important to know that by this time (1520), the combination of stained glass windows with clear glass (colorless bullseye panes) to allow more natural light into the room was already well established. This is confirmed not only by many works preserved in situ but also by depictions in late Gothic paintings. Payments to the Hirsvogel workshop for clear glasswork in St. Roch's Chapel have survived." ...

The semicircular, tripartite windows depicted the history of salvation, while the two-light windows show patron saints of the Nuremberg and Augsburg branches of the Imhoff family. All eleven windows feature the Imhoff/Haller/Nützel coat of arms in the lower corners of their respective compositions, a reference to the chapel's founder, Konrad Imhoff, who was married first to Magdalena Haller and then to Ursula Nützel. The central or east window in the chancel depicts, so to speak, a Coronation of the Virgin at the last minute of Catholicism in Nuremberg, five years before the conversion to Catholicism!

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra

References: -

The Rochus Chapel in Nuremberg, Josef Fink Art Publishers, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2021 - Corpus vitrearum medii aevi - Germany, Volume 10.1, Part 1: Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2002