Word: altars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Jesus is on the altar In the form of bread, He invites me to receive him. My soul desires you, O Jesus...
...welcome back their revered altar, 6,000 devout Poles thronged the 13th century Roman Catholic church and the small square outside one day in August while a solemn Mass of thanksgiving was offered. And for good reason. Cracow's altar is not only the largest Gothic altar in Christendom, but the greatest masterpiece carved by Veit Stoss, the German sculptor who. along with his younger contemporaries Mathias Grunewald, Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach. brought the art of the Middle Ages to its great and final climax...
...writhe under the heel of Communist rule. But the heel has been lifted enough, since Wladyslaw Gomulka came to power a year ago, to permit the restoration to its proper place of Poland's greatest treasure of religion and art. After 18 years' absence, the famed Cracow altar, a huge, polychrome Gothic masterpiece carved out of linden wood in the 15th century, is back in its place in the red brick Church of Our Lady...
Lyrical Composition. Sculptor Stoss was summoned to Cracow in 1475 when he was in his mid-30's worked for 14 years carving the altar, which measures 45 ft. in height and 36 ft. in breadth and contains some 200 individual carved figures. The greatest labor and most consummate skill were obviously lavished on the shrine, or central panel (see color page). There at the center of the drama is the dying Virgin Mary, falling with limp hands into the anguished arms of the attending St. James. The two figures, carved from one massive block of wood, have been...
With Needle & Knife. In 1940 the German army shipped the dismantled altar to Berlin to be stored like the treasure it is in the vaults of the Reichsbank. When the conquering U.S. Army moved into Germany, it found the crated altar in an air-conditioned vault in Veit Stoss's native Nürnberg. General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower ordered it shipped back to Cracow...