Albrecht Dürer, born at Nuremberg, May 21, 1471, died in Nuremberg, April 6, 1528 / Artist’s portrait of himself, 1500, now in the Old Pinakothek, Munich

View of the Cathedral Church at Freiburg in Breisgau (Baden) / The nave begun in 1250 / The earliest and most perfect Gothic tower with pyramid of perforated masonery, existing in Germany / From a photograph by G. Röbecke, Freiburg in Breisgau

The Gold Room in the Town-hall at Augsburg / Built by Elias Holl in 1615–1620 / A magnificent and effective masterpiece of the late Renaissance period / From a photograph by Fritz Höfle, Augsburg

The Cathedral at Regensburg, begun in 1275, completed in 1869 / The rich facade with the three cornered vestibule executed by Lybhart the Mynner, 1385–1395 / From a photograph by M. Stich, Nuremberg

Adolf von Menzel, born at Breslau, December 8, 1815, died in Berlin, February 9, 1905 / Mission Service in the Beech Hall near Kösen (1868) / With the permission of F. Bruckmann Co, Munich