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- His principal works are the majestic high altar, carved in limewood and painted, of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Kraków (1477–89) and the sculptured tombs of King Casimir IV and Archbishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki in the cathedrals of Kraków and Gniezno, respectively.
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The Altarpiece by Veit Stoss (Polish: Ołtarz Wita Stwosza), also St. Mary's Altar (Ołtarz Mariacki), is a large Gothic altarpiece and a national treasure of Poland. [1] It is located behind the high altar of St. Mary's Basilica in the city of Kraków.
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The main altar of St. Mary’s Church in Kraków is decorated with an altarpiece by Veit Stoss, which is called simply the Altar of Veit Stoss, the Altar of Dormition of the Mother of God, or St. Mary’s Altar. The work on the Altar of Veit Stoss continued from 1477 until 1489.
Jul 29, 2024 · Carved over a period of 12 years, the 15th century Veit Stoss Altarpiece (or St. Mary’s Altar) is located behind the high altar of St. Mary’s Basilica, Krakow. Read its outrageous story involving medieval celebrities, fraud, and the Nazis.
Aug 1, 2017 · The altarpiece is revealed in all its glory and you, my savvy friend, have the best view in the house. This spring HOB waited at the door of St. Mary’s Basilica in Krakow, tickets in hand, ready to see altarpiece by Viet Stoss.
Veit Stoss (also: Veit Stoß and Stuoss; Polish: Wit Stwosz; Latin: Vitus Stoss; before 1450 – about 20 September 1533) was a leading German sculptor, mostly working with wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance.
On the high altar by Veit Stoss, or how to transform a disaster into a huge success. In 1442, disaster struck the most important of church in Kraków: the parish St Mary’s Church. The collapse of its ceiling destroyed the high altar.
Krakow is blessed with masterworks by the greatest sculptor of the Gothic art, Veit Stoss (or Wit Stwosz, circa 1440 to 1533). He lived and worked here for 19 years, and he sacrificed twelve of them (1477 to 1489) to carve in wood his best work ever: three-story-high altarpiece in the basilica of the Virgin Mary's at Krakow’s central Grand ...
