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On March 12th, 1521, the Great Council held its first meeting in the new Rathaus; and Meyer zum Hasen, who presided over it as Burgomaster, entrusted to his protégé the enviable task of decorating the Council Chamber. Fifty-six years after Holbein's work was completed these wall-paintings were described as "representations of the noblest subjects done by the German Apelles."
While as the lifelong leader of the Catholic party in Basel, it was natural that Meyer zum Hasen should have much in common with a painter who all his life held firmly to his friendships with the most conspicuous champions of that party. Johann Froben was another of these; and from 1515 until Froben's death eleven years later Holbein had more and more to do for this printer.
At the end of her first term, she came home, looking, as you say, as if she had had a fever." "And they sent her back?" "Why, yes, certainly term after term for two years. You know Mary was always persevering; and so was her mother. And now they have their reward. There is not a girl anywhere who surpasses Mary for scholarship." "Truly, they have their reward infatuated people!" murmured Hasen.
With the dominance of the anti-Catholic party, which unseated Meyer zum Hasen in 1521, his friend Oberriedt also fell into trouble. And soon after Erasmus and Bonifacius Amerbach, disgusted with the iconoclast fanaticism of 1528 and 1529, took refuge in Catholic Freiburg-in-the-Breisgau, Oberriedt also left Basel for that city.
The dreadful harvests that had brought virtual famine, the earthquake shocks which had unsettled many a mental as well as material foundation, the flooding devastations of the Birsig, the rage of Canton against Canton, the Civil War ready to begin, Pope or Luther come by his own, it was all one at last to Meyer zum Hasen, who died just as his protégé of earlier years was commissioned to paint the blank wall.
"Now, Julius Hasen," said Marvel to his only neighbour's son, "don't you want to call, as you go by, days, with your little sister, and take our Mary to school? I guess she won't be a trouble. She could go alone; but, somehow, mother and I shall feel easier as the river is to pass, &c. if you are willing."
Paul's Cross that no heretic or heretical doctrine would be tolerated amongst them. Here, then, in this staunch citadel of his own faith, Holbein naturally found a new circle of friends among whom it must have been strangely easy to fancy himself back in the Fischmarkt of his young years, with Froben and Erasmus and Amerbach and Meyer zum Hasen.
First visit to England Sir Thomas More; his home and portraits The Windsor drawings Bishop Fisher Archbishop Warham Bishop Stokesley Sir Henry Guildford and his portrait Nicholas Kratzer Sir Bryan Tuke Holbein's return to Basel Portrait-group of his wife and two eldest children; two versions Holbein's children, and families claiming descent from him Iconoclastic fury Ruined arts Death of Meyer zum Hasen Another Meyer commissions the last paintings for Basel Return to England Description of the Steelyard Portraits of its members George Gysze Basel Council summons Holbein home "The Ambassadors" at the National Gallery; accepted identification Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn Lost paintings for the Guildhall of the Steelyard; the Triumphs of Riches and Poverty The great Morett portrait; identifications Holbein's industry and fertility Designs for metal-work and other drawings Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
There are hints that point to treachery to the Basel troops, in the Imperial interests, sympathy with which finally cost him, as well as his friend Meyer zum Hasen, his official position. Gerster himself was not a native of Basel, although his wife, Barbara Guldenknopf, was. Be this as it may, it is apparently in direct connection with this confessed sin that "the sinner's saint," St.
This was the long-delayed order for the decoration of that vacant wall in the Council Hall, which adjoined the house zum Hasen. Oddly enough, this commission also came officially through a burgomaster, Jacob Meyer. Each headed a party at deadly issue. For the past year Meyer-of-the-Hare had vainly tried to turn back the clock or to stay the iconoclastic fury of the hour.
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