Karl Georg Anton Graeb is an artist known for his excellent understanding of arranging overlapping architectural forms, particularly in the depiction of church decor. He devoted time to painting the late Gothic pulpit of St. George in Nördlingen, Swabia, which he had already painted in oil in 1872. Graeb's depiction includes a staircase with a loop-like quatrefoil pattern winding its way up, arched over by an expansive, baroque soundboard. The perspective chosen by Graeb is noted as unusual, with a large part of the pulpit body covered by a massive pillar around which the stairs wind rhythmically upwards....