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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Veit Stoss , c.1445-1533, German sculptor. He worked in Kraków (1477-86, 1488-96) and Nuremberg, his birthplace. The great carved wooden high altar in St. Mary's, Kraków, is a significant early work. His stone tomb of King Casimir IV is also in Kraków. The Annunciation carved in wood (1517-19), his most famous work, is in the Church of St. Lawrence, Nuremberg. His art is characterized by an expressive realism, angular poses and drapery, precise technique, and tightly packed composition, typical of late German Gothic work. His later style shows greater breadth in the treatment... Read more

Veit Stoss
Encyclopedia of World Biography Veit Stoss The German sculptor Veit Stoss (ca. 1445-1533) perfected the expressive late Gothic style in ... Renaissance-inspired art. Born either in Swabia or Nuremberg, Veit Stoss worked in Cracow, Poland, between 1477 and 1496, when he became ... Read more

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World Encyclopedia ... centuries. By the end of the Middle Ages, a flourishing tradition in wood-carving had grown up in the s with the work of Veit Stoss and Tilman Riemenschneider. In the 16th century, Germany was at the forefront of the n Renaissance, led by Albrecht D ... Read more

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	'Woodturning master' to show his work at gallery; HAY-ON-WYE: Town becoming a mecca for woodcarving enthusiasts.(Arts) Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 4/17/2002; 440 words ; ... Middle Ages and later the craft was used by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and the German sculptor and woodcarver, Veit Stoss. But industrialisation led to a decline of the trade as mass-produced items took over. Recently the popularity in using ... Read more
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	(theater reviews) The New Leader; 10/21/1985; Sauvage, Leo; 921 words ; ... acknowledged main inspiration is the sculptor Veit Stoss. He was born near Nuremberg about ... 95. During 12 of his Polish years Stoss worked on the retable of the Church ... into 20th-century surrealism, makes Stoss both a character in and the essential ... Read more
	Sculpture on a grand scale: Kim Woods reviews a spectacularly large and lavish book on German and Austrian carved wooden altarpieces that is full of new information.(The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany)(Book review) Apollo; 7/1/2007; Woods, Kim; 1178 words ; ... misconceptions are corrected (the Krakow altarpiece by Veit Stoss was financed by the Polish as well as the expatriate German community). Veit Stoss's altarpiece made for the Carmelite monastery in Nuremberg ... Read more
	Durer and the art of Nuremberg. The Nation; 6/21/1986; Danto, Arthur Coleman; 2205 words ; ... another legendary master, the great limewood sculptor Veit Stoss. Throughout Stoss's work, the draperies are whipped into violent folds ... for spirit, for the violent energy of things unseen. Stoss's figures are caught up in the crosswinds of spiritual ... Read more
	CARVED SPLENDOR: LATE GOTHIC ALTARPIECES IN SOUTHERN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND SOUTH TIROL Artforum; 2/1/2007; Banks, Eric; 216 words ; ... photographs masterfully capture the inward expressivity and exhilarating woodwork of the sculpture of Riemenschneider, Veit Stoss, and others in twenty-two churches throughout present-day Germany and Austria. Rarely does one see a book of such stark ... Read more
	Cracovia; SANTUARIO ESPIRITUAL DE POLONIA El Nuevo Herald; 9/25/2005; Díaz, Manuel C.; 1411 words ; ... gtico, sino tambin sus capillas laterales, en las que pueden verse las pinturas de Matejko, los crucifijos de piedra de Veit Stoss y las tumbas de mrmol blanco de la familia Montelupi. Para acceder a la iglesia hay dos entradas, la principal, que es ... Read more
	All Around the National Gallery The Washington Post; 10/29/1999; Michael O'Sullivan; 1633 words ; ... with the plain finish of the limewood, the church hired Veit Stoss to add decorative paint (ironically for 50 percent more than they originally paid Riemenschneider to carve it!). Stoss at least realized the folly of desecrating his competitor ... Read more

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