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Angelic Salutation (German: Engelsgruß) is an assemblage of life-sized limewood sculptures celebrating the Annunciation by the late- Gothic German artist Veit Stoss. It was commissioned in 1517 by Anton II Tucher and completed the following year. Tucher was a high ranking official in Nuremberg in southern Germany, and donated the work to the ...
Angelic Salutation. from 1517 to 1518. ... Epitaph of Veit Stoss and his heirs. Master mark of Veit Stoss. Archangel Michael. Altar of Mary. Madonna with a pomegranate.
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Apr 8, 2017 · The Angelic Salutation is a assembly of lime wood sculptures. Veit Stoss created it for the medieval church of St. Lorenz (one of the two principal churches in Nuremberg’s Old Town) where it hangs on a metal chain in the center of the choir. It was commissioned by famous merchant Anton Tucher, and local Renaissance hero Albrecht Dürer ...
Annunciation. 1517-18. Polychrome limewood, height 515 cm. St Lorenzkirche, Nuremberg. This Angelic Salutation is one of the most beautiful examples of German Renaissance sculpture. The ensemble hangs fro the choir vault before the high altar in St Lorenz's in Nuremberg. The large scale and life-like polychromy of this grand Annunciation assure ...
born Horb am Neckar, um 1447. died Nürnberg, 22. Sep 1533. Veit Stoss is famous as a sculptor and wood carver as well as graphic artist and painter of the German Late Gothic Epoch and one of its protagonists. Nothing is known about the time when he was trained, but the formative influence of Niclaus Gerhaert and the sculptural art of the area ...
The common conception of the art of Veit Stoss is derived, among non-Ger-mans and even among the majority of Germans, from a single work, the large rosary of the Annunciation, usually called the 'Angelic Salutation,' which hangs above the choir in the Church of St Lawrence at Ntirnberg. Of Peter Vischer, his
Wooden Altar of Veit Stoss at St Mary's Church in Kraków Blind Veit Stoss with granddaughter by Jan Matejko (1865), National Museum in Warsaw. 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 ...
