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

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The Archangel Raphael
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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
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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
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John Bernard Flannagan
American sculptor
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Juan Martínez Montañés
Spanish sculptor
Grinling Gibbons.
Grinling Gibbons
British sculptor
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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
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Francesco da Sangallo
Italian sculptor
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Piero del Pollaiuolo
Italian artist

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