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Altarpiece of the Church Fathers right panel showing Saint Ambrose, 1471–75, Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Michael Pacher (c. 1435 – 1498) was a painter and sculptor from Tyrol active during the second half of the fifteenth century.
The other is a late Gothic, carved wooden altarpiece made by Michael Pacher. [1] [2] Pacher made the altarpiece between 1471 and 1475. During the Baroque era, the altarpiece was considered out of date and replaced with a Baroque high altar. Pacher's altarpiece was placed in the St. Erasmus' chapel of the church.
In Christian art he has been especially honoured by the medieval Tyrolean painter Michael Pacher (1430–1498), who created an imperishable memorial to him, the high altar of St. Wolfgang. In the panel pictures which are now exhibited in the Old Pinakothek at Munich are depicted in an artistic manner the chief events in the saint's life.
The altarpiece was made by a main sculptor, who is often referred to by a notname as the Master of the Kefermarkt Altarpiece. [4] It has been assumed that he was the head of a workshop, which together with its main sculptor made two of the figures in the central section (Saint Wolfgang and Saint Peter ), the reliefs on the wings, and most of ...
St. Wolfgang Altarpiece (1481) by Michael Pacher, St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut; San Giobbe Altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini, c. 1487, an early example whose background continues the architecture of the church; Altarpiece of Veit Stoss (1489) by Veit Stoss (St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków) Kefermarkt Altarpiece (1490–1497) by an unknown artist
The chapel behind the high altar has a winged marble altar that dates from 1561. The High Altar (1709) by Fischer von Erlach is made of red marble and gold. The central Madonna statue on the winged altar dates from the Late Gothic period (1495-1498) and was sculpted by Michael Pacher of Tyrol. [1]
Having borrowed the large architectural setting in the Temple of the Presentation, later scenes may show the high priest alone holding the baby, as he or a mohel performs the operation, as in the St Wolfgang altarpiece by Michael Pacher (1481), or Dürer's painting (right) and his influential woodcut from his series on the Life of the Virgin.
Michael Pacher (c. 1435 – 1498), 3 sculptures : Annunciation, Alte Pinakothek, Munich ; Augustin Pajou (1730–1809), 7 sculptures : Bust of Madame du Barry, Musée du Louvre, Paris ; Guillielmus Paludanus (1530–1579), 2 sculptures : The Garden of Eden or Love, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels