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Facts

Born c.1435 • Tirol • Austria
Died August 1498 • Salzburg • Austria
Movement / Style Late Gothic art • Renaissance art • Renaissance

Photos

Painting by Michael Pacher showing St. Augustine in bishop's robes holding a staff, confronted by a green, winged devil presenting an open book in a medieval town setting.
The “Expulsion of the Money Changers from the Temple,” panel from the St. Wolfgang altarpiece by Michael Pacher, 1478-81; in the Pilgrimage Church of Sankt Wolfgang in Upper Austria
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