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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 altarpiece by Michael Pacher. The castle of the Counts of Tyrol originally occupied the location of the present-day Muri-Gries Abbey, while the church serving the area (known as Cheller or Keller from the Early Middle Ages until the 15th century, when Gries started to be used instead) was built somewhat north of the castle.
St. Wolfgang's tourist attractions include the Schafbergbahn (a rack railway that runs up the Schafberg), the Hotel Weißes Rössl (the setting of the operetta White Horse Inn) and a pilgrimage church with a late Gothic altarpiece by Michael Pacher.
Because of its unusual quality, it has unconvincingly been proposed that the altarpiece was made by Tilman Riemenschneider, Veit Stoss, Michael Pacher and Albrecht Dürer. [6] Most scholars have concluded that the workshop which produced the altarpiece was active in Passau , but since few comparable works of art from Passau have been preserved ...
A number of figural motifs link the Litoměřice Altarpiece with the Melk Altarpiece (1502) painted by Jörg Breu the Elder.[14] The painter's attention to detail, such as wrinkles, sprouting whiskers, knots in wood and coils of rope, are characteristic of the early Renaissance style of painting. The painter was well-acquainted with the ...
Among many others, the Pinakothek shows works of Stefan Lochner (Adoration of the Christ Child by the Virgin (The Nativity)), Michael Pacher (Altarpiece of the Church Fathers), Martin Schongauer (Holy Family), Albrecht Dürer (The Four Apostles, Paumgartner Altar, Self-Portrait), Hans Baldung Grien (Margrave Christoph of Baden), Albrecht ...
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.
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.