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Painter

Michael Pacher

c. 1435, Bruneck (Brunico), South Tyrol - August 1498, Salzburg

One of the greatest artists of the late Gothic period, and a man who died in Salzburg. Michael Pacher’s masterpiece, the St. Wolfgang Altarpiece (completed 1481), stands in the Pfarrkirche St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut and is considered one of the supreme achievements of late Gothic art in Central Europe.

The altarpiece’s carved and painted panels combine Gothic intensity with a Renaissance mastery of perspective that was extraordinary for its time and place. Every visitor to St. Wolfgang sees his work.

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  • The Michael Pacher winged altarpiece in the church of St. Wolfgang stands fully open, its gilded Coronation of the Virgin shrine flanked by painted panels, with a red Alleluja banner, a paschal candle and a Risen Christ figure in front.church

    Pfarrkirche St. Wolfgang

    1481

    The pilgrimage church of St. Wolfgang on the Wolfgangsee contains the altarpiece that Michael Pacher spent ten years creating between 1471 and 1481, producing one of the masterpieces of late-Gothic central European art.

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