Michael Pacher, c.(1435–died 1498),

• Was an Austrian or German painter and sculptor from Tyrol.
• He was one of the earliest artists to introduce the principles of Renaissance painting into Germany.
• Pacher was a comprehensive artist with a broad range of sculpting, painting, and architecture skills producing works of complex wood and stone.
• He painted structures for altarpieces on a scale unparalleled in North European art.
• Pacher's masterpiece, the St. Wolfgang Altarpiece, 1471–1481, is considered one of the most remarkable carved and painted altar shrines in all of European art.
• It contains scenes from the life of Jesus and the Virgin Mary.
• Pacher's influence was primarily North Italian, and his work shares characteristics with that of painters such as Andrea Mantegna.
• German influences, however, are also evident in his work, especially in his wood sculpture.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Church fathers altar, wing outside St. An angel appears to Sigisbertus with the heart of St. Augustine, 1480.
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