een presented from time to time to such potentates as
the townsmen wished to conciliate. Thus, his Four Apostles, bequeathed
by the artist to his native town, was presented by the council to the
Elector Maximilian I., of Bavaria, and are now in the Pinacothek in
Munich.

[218-*] "Guido seems to have availed himself of some of these figures in
his celebrated fresco of the Car of Apollo, preceded by Aurora, and
accompanied by the Hours."--CHATTO'S _History of Wood Engraving_, p.
303.

[221-*] For a general notice of Duerer's works, and several engravings of
the best of them, see the _Art-Journal_ for 1851, pp. 141-144 and pp.
193-196. See also, "Vignettes d'Albert Duerer," par George Franz.

[223-*] These incipient bastions and horn-works may be seen in our cut,
p. 194.

[223-[+]] Marc Antonio had copied Duerer's cuts on copper, but they are
poor substitutes for the originals. They, however, did Duerer an injury
of which he complained.

[225-*] In her "Visits and Sketches of Art at Home and Abroad," 4 vols.
8vo., 1834.

[227-*] L. E. L.

[227-[+]] Mrs. Jameson speaks of his portrait as "beautiful, like the
old heads of our Saviour; and the predominant expression is calm,
dignified, intellectual, with a tinge of melancholy. This picture was
painted at the age of twenty-eight; he was then suffering from that
bitter domestic curse, a shrewish, avaricious wife, who finally broke
his heart." We have engraved this portrait in the head-piece to this
subject (p. 187), along with those of his wife and of his friend
Pirkheimer.

[228-*] Leopold Schefer has constructed a _novelette_ on his domestic
career, which has been cleverly translated by Mrs. Stodart. It is
entitled "The Artist's Married Life, being that of Albert Duerer." It
teaches much by its pure philosophy.

[229-*] They are now in the Pinacothek at Munich.

[229-[+]] Duerer had warmly espoused the Reformation, and had placed
quotations from the gospels and epistles of the Apostles beneath each
picture, containing pressing warnings not to swerve from the written
word, or listen to false prophets and perverters of the truth. When the
town presented these pictures to the Roman Catholic Elector Maximilian
I., of Bavaria, in 1627, they cut off these inscriptions, and affixed
them to the copies they had made for themselves by Vischer, and which
are now in the Landauer Gallery at Nuernberg.

[230-*] There is an old tradition that Duerer intended these figures als