/internal/media/dispatcher/49601/fullPope Sixtus II Bids Farewell to St Lawrencevom ehemaligen Hochaltar der Pfarrkirche von St. Lorenzen im Pustertal (Südtirol)c. 1465[Michael Pacher]Michael PacherPainting on Swiss stone pineThese four paintings once belonged to the high altarpiece in the parish church of San Lorenzo di Sebato in South Tyrol, which was Michael Pacher’s first documented altarpiece. The half-length images of the apostles Peter and Paul were intended for the predella, the base of the altarpiece. On the larger panels, the theme is from one of the saints’ lives during the period of persecution in the early Christian church. Pacher’s figures are imbued with expressive individuality and move freely in stage-like spaces that lead the eye into the pictorial depths. The accurately constructed central perspective and anatomically convincing poses suggest that the artist was trained in Italy.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3591/rdf