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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. It is located behind the high altar of St. Mary's Basilica in the city of Kraków .
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.
Mar 21, 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.
Veit Stoss was one of the greatest sculptors and wood-carvers of 16th-century Germany. His nervous, angular forms, realistic detail, and virtuoso wood carving synthesized the sculptural styles of Flemish and Danubian art and, together with the emotional force and dramatic realism of the Dutch.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Stoss mainly worked as a wood carver on the main figures in the shrine of the Krakow altar that are clearly larger than life and were determined to be monumental three-dimensional sculptures carved in full detail right from the start of work.
Stoss' best known works of sculpture are: The High Altar of St Marys Church (1477-1484, Krakow) and Raphael and Tobias (1516, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg). High Altar of St Mary's Church, Krakow. Born in Horb am Neckar, Swabia in 1447, Stoss trained in Nuremberg as an artist and married Barbara Hertz in 1473.
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Veit Stoss was a leading German sculptor, mostly working with wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance. His style emphasized pathos and...
