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SCULPTURE AND PAINTING 211 Window ' in the Church of St. Lawrence, which repre- sents the genealogical tree of Christ, and the patron saint and family of the donors. 1 The two choir windows in the Cathedral of Ulm, which were ordered from Hans Wild by the city (1480), are amongst the most beautiful specimens of colouring which this art can produce. The five windows in the northern nave of the Cathedral of Cologne were executed in the years 1507-1509, and have become celebrated far and wide. Nearly all the numerous glass-painting works in the monasteries have gone to ruin, only a few frag- mentary specimens being found here and there, as, for instance, of the magnificent paintings of the Stations of the Cross in Hirschau, where the abbot Trithemius, in 1491, had forty windows illustrated with subjects taken from wood engravings in ' The Bible of the Poor.' This glass-painting was not confined to churches and cloisters. Stained-glass windows were to be found in the castles, the city halls, the guildhalls, and in the houses of the patricians. We find such artists as Hol- bein and Diirer supplying designs and drawings for these works. An Augsburg authority writes : ' In former times there were no churches or public build- ings, or even houses belonging to citizens in easy cir- cumstances, which did not possess painted windows.' This applies to all the larger cities, particularly in Southern Germany, where this industry flourished most. Miniature painting was another branch of art which was brought to great perfection ; it was held in such 1 See Neudorfer, p. 147 ; also Lochner, pp. 147-150. For remarkable windows made from 1417 to 1515, see Rettberg's Nuremberg Letters, pp. 136-138. p 2