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...master's contemporary, Tilman Riemenschneider. It is true that the latter hailed not from Nuremberg but from nearby Wurzburg, yet all the qualities Hughes admires in Stoss's work can be found in Riemenschneider's extraordinary wood carvings. Riemenschneider was Stoss's equal, to say the least. John Rewald New York City Your review says Veit Stoss was not well known outside Germany. No one, however, could graduate from a Hungarian high school 40 years ago if, when presented with a slide of a wood carving, he could not distinguish whether it was a Stoss or a Riemenschneider. Vladimir Lieskovsky...