Allegorie op het bestuur van de stad Neurenberg

Two celestial female figures sit upon clouds in the upper register: Justice with her sword and scales, and a second figure—likely Charity or Temperance—holding a flaming heart and scattering coins. Below them, two large angels support the various coats of arms representing Nuremberg, all positioned beneath the ornate crown of the Holy Roman Emperor. The hand-colored woodcut uses a vertical hierarchy to suggest that civic governance is protected by divine virtue and imperial authority.

This work reflects the Renaissance humanist ideal of the 'Just City,' where terrestrial law mirrors divine order, a concept central to the Neoplatonic political philosophy of the era. It illustrates the late medieval belief in a harmonious 'body politic' where the prosperity of the state (represented by the scattering of coins) is dependent on the balance of cardinal and theological virtues.