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The Veit Stoss Altarpiece is a monumental carved and painted winged altarpiece made for Saint Mary's Basilica in Kraków and completed in 1489. Constructed principally from limewood, it rises approximately 13 metres and centers on a crowded scene of the Dormition of the Virgin, with other Marian and...
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Monumental late Gothic sculpture landmark, spectacular scale and carving, one of Central Europe's most famous altarpieces.
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The St. Wolfgang Altarpiece is a large carved and painted winged altarpiece created by Michael Pacher and his workshop between 1471 and 1481 for the pilgrimage church at Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, Austria. Its open state centers on the Coronation of the Virgin within an elaborate gilded archit...
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Supreme Pacher work merging painting, sculpture, and perspective, widely acclaimed in late Gothic and early Renaissance studies.
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The Creglingen Altarpiece is an unpainted limewood retable attributed to Tilman Riemenschneider and generally dated to the early sixteenth century. Installed in the Herrgottskirche near Creglingen, Germany, its central shrine represents the Assumption of the Virgin, surrounded by apostles and framed...
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One of Riemenschneider's most admired altarpieces, celebrated for lyrical figures and unpainted limewood refinement.
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The Holy Blood Altar is a carved limewood retable made by Tilman Riemenschneider around 1499 to 1505 for St. James's Church in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany. Its shrine houses a relic associated with the Holy Blood and centers visually on the Last Supper, with Judas positioned prominently before...
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Major Riemenschneider masterpiece, famed for subtle unpainted carving and relic setting, high art historical standing.
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The Kefermarkt Altarpiece is a monumental late Gothic winged altarpiece created around 1490-1497 for the parish church of Kefermarkt in Upper Austria. Carved primarily from limewood by an unidentified master and workshop, its shrine contains nearly life-size figures of Saints Peter, Wolfgang, and Ch...
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Exceptional Austrian limewood altarpiece, prized for expressive carving and survival, high regional and scholarly esteem.
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The Breisach High Altar is a monumental carved and painted wooden altarpiece in St. Stephen's Minster at Breisach am Rhein, Germany. Created around 1523 to 1526 and associated with the sculptor known as Master H. L., it centers on the Coronation of the Virgin and includes densely arranged saints and...
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Expressive Master HL altar, admired for dynamic carving, strong regional fame but narrower global recognition.
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The Blaubeuren High Altar is a large late Gothic winged altarpiece installed in the choir of the former Benedictine abbey church at Blaubeuren, Germany. Completed around 1493 to 1494, it combines carved and gilded sculpture with painted wings and is associated with Michel Erhart and other Swabian ar...
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Major Swabian late Gothic ensemble, admired for carving and preservation, strong specialist reputation.
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The Retablo Mayor of Huesca Cathedral is a monumental alabaster altarpiece created principally by the Aragonese sculptor Damián Forment during the early sixteenth century. Its extensive relief sculpture centers on the Passion of Christ and combines a traditional Gothic altarpiece structure with Rena...
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Major Damian Forment alabaster retablo, admired as a defining Spanish Renaissance sculptural achievement.
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The Detwang Altarpiece is a carved wooden Passion altarpiece associated with Tilman Riemenschneider and preserved in the Church of St. Peter and Paul at Detwang, near Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Created in the early sixteenth century, it incorporates a central Crucifixion scene flanked by reliefs conn...
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Strong Riemenschneider Holy Cross altar, admired for carving quality, smaller fame than Creglingen or Rothenburg.
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The Claus Berg Altarpiece is a large carved and painted wooden altarpiece in Saint Canute's Cathedral in Odense, Denmark. Created in the early sixteenth century by the workshop of the German-born sculptor Claus Berg, it centers on the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ and contains numerous densely a...
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Major Scandinavian carved altarpiece, impressive scale and preservation, high regional reputation.
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The Bamberg Altarpiece is a carved wooden altarpiece by the German sculptor Veit Stoss, created for Bamberg Cathedral in the early sixteenth century. Its reliefs and figures present Christian devotional subjects through deeply cut drapery, animated gestures, and the intricate surface treatment assoc...
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Notable Stoss-associated carved altar, respected regionally, but less secure and less celebrated than Krakow.
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The Münnerstadt Altarpiece is a late Gothic carved altarpiece created by Tilman Riemenschneider around 1490 to 1492 for the parish church at Münnerstadt in Germany. Its program included expressive limewood figures and narrative reliefs associated with Saint Mary Magdalene. Parts of the original ense...
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Important early Riemenschneider commission, partly dispersed and reconstructed, less complete than his best-known works.
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Medieval carved winged altarpiece in Aarhus Cathedral (St. Clemens), Denmark; one of Scandinavia's notable surviving examples of late medieval ecclesiastical woodwork.
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Notable Danish medieval winged altar, valued for survival and regional importance, limited broader recognition.
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Located in St. George's Church in Nördlingen, Germany, the High Altar is a significant example of late Gothic German art created in the 1460s. The carved wood altarpiece features painted panels by the artist Friedrich Herlin. It originally functioned as the central focal point of worship within the...
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Notable Herlin altar, regionally important and well preserved, but modest broader canonical reputation.
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The Windsheim Twelve Apostles Altar is a late Gothic carved altarpiece originally created for the church of St. Kilian in Bad Windsheim, Germany. The work depicts the twelve apostles and serves as a notable example of south German wood sculpture from the turn of the 16th century. Distinguished by it...
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Solid late Gothic carved altar, historically notable, but limited international profile and less distinctive authorship.
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