EditorialGross Muenster, The Grossm?nster in Zurich, p., 193; after p. 192, p. 225, 1742, Hans Heinrich Bluntschli: Memorabilia Tigurina, oder Merkw?rdigkeiten der Stadt und Landschaft Z?rich. Dritte vermehrte Auflage. Z?rich: Heidegger und Companie, 1742.
EditorialAm Baseler Muenster, View of the northern facade of the basle Minster from the 19th century, signed: G. Bauernfeind, A. Closs X. J, Wolf, Fig. 175, p. 205, Bauernfeind, Gustav; Closs, Adolf; Wolf (sc.), Woldemar Kaden: Das Schweizerland: eine Sommerfah...
EditorialChoirstalls in the Muenster at Ulm. The large busts at ends of the benches show figures from the Old Testament on one side and figures from antiquity on the other.
EditorialThe Sibyl of Delphos-from a series of 15 sibyls and pagan prophets from the Cathedral of Muenster, Germany, from where they disappeared during the Anabaptist troubles. Wood, 44 x 31 cm R. F. 2283.
EditorialBust of Ptolemy from the choir-stalls of Ulm Cathedral. Claudius Ptolemaios was a geographer, astronomer and mathematician in Alexandria (2nd century CE) who was much admired by the Humanists.
EditorialGerlachus, self-portrait from the Moses and Aaron window, (15-01-05 / 60). He wears the blue coat of a Saxon Praemonstratensian. The earliest self-portrait of a medieval painter. From the Praemonstratensian monastery in Arnstein a. d. Lahn. Around 1150.
EditorialCoronation of Saint Mary, main altar, 1523-26. Signed by an unidentified Master " H. L. " Saint Mary between God-Father and Christ, the Holy Ghost above her crown. Left the deacons Saint Stephen and Laurence, right the city patrons Protasius ...
EditorialThe Sibyl of Delphos-from a series of 15 sibyls and pagan prophets from the Cathedral of Muenster, Germany, from where they disappeared during the Anabaptist troubles. Wood, 44 x 31 cm R. F. 2283.
EditorialThe Apostles. Detail of the triptych of the Coronation of the Virgin, right tablet of the main altar of the Muenster of Freiburg, Germany, 1511-1516.
EditorialThe Apostles. Detail of the triptych of the Coronation of the Virgin, right tablet of the main altar of the Muenster of Freiburg, Germany, 1511-1516.
EditorialChoirstalls in the Muenster at Ulm. The large busts at ends of the benches show figures from the Old Testament on one side and figures from antiquity on the other.
EditorialThe Sibyl of Delphos-from a series of 15 sibyls and pagan prophets from the Cathedral of Muenster, Germany, from where they disappeared during the Anabaptist troubles. Wood, 44 x 31 cm R. F. 2283.
EditorialThe swearing of the oath of rectification-signing of the separate peace treaty between Spain and the General States on May 15th, 1648 in Muenster, Germany, during the deliberations of the Westphalian Peace Treaty. Oil on copper, 45,4 x 58,5 cm NG 896.
EditorialMeal in honour of the Peace of Muenster and Osnabrueck, which put an end to the Thirty Years' War; held in the large Council hall in Nuernberg, Germany, on September 15 1649. Foreground right: Ottavio Piccolomini Imperial general and chief negotiator.
EditorialThe tower of St. Lambert Church in Muenster, Westfalia, Germany. The radical sect of Anabaptists set up a com-munist " New Zion" community in Muenster in 1534 / 35. The Anabaptists surrendered after a 16 months siege; the bodies of their exec...
EditorialThe Rueschhaus (built 1745 by Schlaun), home of the German Romantic poetess Annete von Droste-Huelshoff, situated west of Muenster, Westphalia.
EditorialFacade of the Town Hall of Muenster, destroyed during World War II, rebuilt according to the original. In 1648, the Westphalian Peace Treaty was signed here in the Old Council Chamber, to end the Thirty Years War.