Excerpt from Familiar Sketches of Sculpture and Sculptors, Vol. 2
Sculpture can hardly be said to have existed in Germany previously to the introduction of Christianity by Charles the Great, and was then limited to a few images of the Saviour and the saints, which were made under the strict prescription of the Church. Classical beauty and ideal grace were wholly prohibited, as partaking of heathen characteristics. Its next development was in monuments, adorned by figures, shrines, reliccases, baptismal fonts, bas-reliefs, and works in ivory, which, though wanting in proportion, exhibited deep feeling and a sense of spiritual beauty.
Many German sculptors might be named, but we know little of their works. Albert Durer is supposed to have aided in building the celebrated tombs of Charles the Bold and of his daughter, Mary of Burgundy, in the Church of Notre Dame at Bruges.
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