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Also Known As Wit Stwosz • Wit Stosz
Born 1438 or 1447 • Nürnberg • Germany
Died 1533 • Nürnberg • Germany
Movement / Style Late Gothic art

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Saints Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus
Tilman Riemenschneider
German sculptor
Notke, Bernt: St. George and the Dragon
Bernt Notke
German sculptor
Henry Moore
Henry Moore
British artist
Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist
Donatello: David
Donatello
Italian sculptor
Andrea Sansovino
Italian architect
William Zorach, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1943.
William Zorach
American sculptor
Milles, Carl: Europa and the Bull
Carl Milles
Swedish sculptor
Stone, Nicholas, Sr.; and Stone, Nicholas, Jr.
Nicholas Stone, Sr.
English sculptor
John Bernard Flannagan
American sculptor
Juan Martínez Montañés
Spanish sculptor
Grinling Gibbons.
Grinling Gibbons
British sculptor
Conrat Meit
German sculptor
Agostino Di Giovanni
Agostino Di Giovanni
Italian sculptor
Barlach, Ernst: Self-Portrait III
Ernst Barlach
German sculptor
Heckel, Erich: Portrait of a Man
Erich Heckel
German artist
Guardian Angel, painted wood sculpture by Ignaz Günther, 1763; in the Bürgersaal, Munich.
Ignaz Günther
German sculptor
Kraft, self-portrait (detail from the “Shrine of the Sacrament”), sandstone, begun 1493; in the Church of Sankt Lorenz, Nürnberg, Ger.
Adam Kraft
German sculptor
Francesco da Sangallo
Italian sculptor
Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Italian artist

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