Word: tilman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the Annunciation to her Assumption and her final crowning, Mary's life, both on earth and in heaven, is re-enacted in a series of shell-like stages that were one of the hallmarks of the Renaissance sculptor, Tilman Riemenschneider. He had come to Würzburg in 1483 as a painter's apprentice, rose to be city councilor and finally mayor. Then, during the Peasants' War, he flatly refused the bishop's order to take a stand against the rebels. He was stripped of his honors, "harshly judged and tortured," and legend...