Page of Monument of Frederick the Wise by VISCHER, Peter the Younger in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European paintings and sculptures (1100-1850)

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Monument of Frederick the Wise

1527
Bronze, height: 425 cm
Schlosskirche, Wittenberg

Peter Vischer was a member of a German family of sculptors. From 1453 through a century this family had in Nuremberg the biggest bronze casting workshop in Germany. Peter the Younger executed many allegoric and mythological figures showing the influence of the Italian Renaissance. He made also several traditional monuments like that of Frederick the Wise.