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Baptism of Christ
1480 · Limewood with paint and gilding
48 × 40 × 3 in. (121.9 × 101.6 × 7.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Veit Stoss
Artist
WA-00014096
SculptureBaroqueRenaissance
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3
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23
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1
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- NationalityArtsy· 85%
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- Artist IndexTier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%
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Veit Stoss was a leading German sculptor, mostly working with wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance. His style emphasized pathos and emotion, helped by his virtuoso carving of billowing drapery; it has been called "late Gothic Baroque". He had a large workshop, and in addition to his own works there are a number by pupils. He is best known for the altarpiece in St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków, Poland.
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Artworks (3)
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3 published of 21 catalogued · 20 with image
- The Met2 published1 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published1 img
- + 1 more source · 18 catalogued, not yet published
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1 entries · 1 sources
- 1475 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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