# Altarpiece of the Church Fathers: St Augustine and St Gregory [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PACHER, Michael]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Wood, 212 x 100 cm ## Commentary Altarpiece of the Church Fathers: St Augustine and St Gregory c. 1483 Wood, 212 x 100 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Pacher was an Austrian painter and sculptor. His elaborate altarpieces combine painted panels with carved wooden figures. His best known work, the Saint Wolfgang Altarpiece \(1481, Sankt Wolfgang, Austria\), with scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary and the legend of St. Wolfgang, is one of the first Austrian works of art to show Italian Renaissance influence, particularly that of the painter Andrea Mantegna. His efforts to realize in his works the unity of wood sculpting and painting can be observed in the painting only Church Fathers altarpiece too, as demonstrated by the architectonic ornamentation painted in an illusory way. This reproduction shows the central panel of the Church Fathers altarpiece. ## Related artworks - [Altarpiece of the Church Fathers]() - [Altarpiece of the Church Fathers: St Augustine Liberating a Prisoner]() - [Altarpiece of the Church Fathers: St Jerome]() - [Altarpiece of the Church Fathers: Vision of St Sigisbert]() - [Annunciation]() - [Coronation of the Virgin between St Wolfgang and St Benedict]() - [Coronation of the Virgin]() - [Flagellation]() - [Mary of Burgundy]() - [St Catherine]() - [St Lawrence Distributing the Alms]() - [St Wolfgang Altarpiece: Baptism of Christ]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()