by Nancy | Jul 5, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
This is one of the more interesting entrances to the old city. It curves inside the wall and is more like a tunnel. You can see the curve in the middle photo. The third photo shows the exit into the city, but it also gives a feel of how dark it...
by Nancy | Jul 4, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Research, Travel
Shown here is one style of what we would call an old washstand. These were used in Germany in the 1600’s for washing your fingers before eating. Yes, I did say fingers instead of hands. You didn’t wash both hands, instead you washed only the first two...
by Nancy | Jun 29, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
These photos are from inside St. Sebaldus Church in Nürnberg, Germany. Besides being another lovely old church, this one has special meaning for me. This is the church Maria Sybilla Merian attended, and where her second daughter, Dorothea, was...
by Nancy | May 20, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
The sole reason I toured Albrecht Dürer's house in Nürnberg, Germany, was because I had read there was a display of his paint and where it came from. Now Dürer lived 170 years before Maria Sybilla Merian did, but things were slow to change back in those...
by Nancy | May 11, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
ChlörleinThis bit of architechture is a famous landmark in Nürnberg, Germany; it is called a chörlein. This one was built in 1513. Looks to me like an elaborate 3-sided bay window held up by an elaborate stone column attached to the side of the house....
by Nancy | Apr 25, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
The large Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) on the Market Square is something to see, especially at noon. As music plays, doors below the clock open to reveal a statue representing the Holy Roman Emperor. Then figures representing seven electors come...
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