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VEIT STOSS (1438 or 1440-1533)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 970 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VEIT See also:STOSS (1438 or 1440-1533)  , See also:German sculptor and See also:wood See also:carver, was See also:born in See also:Nuremberg . In 1477 he went to See also:Cracow, where he was actively engaged until 1499 . It was here that he carved the high See also:altar for the Marienkirche, between 1477 and 1484 . On the See also:death of See also:King Kasimir IV. in 1492 See also:Stoss carved his See also:tomb in red See also:marble for the See also:cathedral in Cracow . To the same date is ascribed the marble tombstone of the See also:arch-See also:bishop Zbigniew 011snicki in the cathedral at See also:Gnesen; and soon after this he executed the See also:Stanislaus altar for the Marienkirche at Cracow . In 1496 he returned to Nuremberg, where he did a See also:great See also:deal of See also:work in completing altars . His See also:main See also:works are: a See also:relief with the See also:Coronation of the Blessed Virgin in the Germanic museum at Nuremberg, a statue of the Blessed Virgin in the Frauenkirche, the See also:Annunciation in the Lorenzkirche and the circular See also:rosary in the Germanic museum .

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