Bimbi
Bimbi
Book Excerpt
those earlier ages did, and thinking but little of gold or praise.
An old trader, too, who sold curiosities not far from the church, had told August a little more about the brave family of Hirschvogel, whose houses can be seen in Nuremberg to this day; of old Veit, the first of them, who painted the Gothic windows of St. Sebald with the marriage of the margravine; of his sons and of his grand-sons, potters, painters, engravers all, and chief of them great Augustin, the Luca della Robbia of the North. And August's imagination, always quick, had made a living personage out of these few records, and saw Hirschvogel as though he were in the flesh walking up and down the Maximilian-Strass in his visit to Innspruck, and maturing beautiful things in his brain as he stood on the bridge and gazed on the emerald green flood of the Inn.
So the stove had got to be called Hirschvogel in the family, as if it were a living creature, and little August was very proud because he had been named after that famous old dead
FREE EBOOKS AND DEALS
(view all)Popular books in Young Readers
Readers reviews
5.0
LoginSign up
I have loved this story for a very long time. It is well told and has many truths and a beautiful insight into the heart of an artist and their special talent to see truth and show it to the world.
- Upvote (0)
- Downvote (0)