Stanisław Stwosz


Stanisław Stwosz, also Stanislaw Stoss, Stanislas Stack, was a Polish sculptor.
Stwosz was born in Kraków, the son of the sculptor Veit Stoss. He is credited with authorship of King John I Albert's tombstone in the chapel. Corpus Christi in the Wawel Cathedral. He is the author of a triptych depicting St. Stanislaus in 1504 on the south porch entrance to St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków and the King John I Albert triptych located in the Chapel of the Cathedral of the Czartoryski family. He made a sculpture depicting a scene of the Dormition of the Mother of God for the Corpus Christi Church in Biecz.