\ATXsh255 Trained in an extremely lively artistic environment, he came into contac
t with Paduan figurative culture at a very early age, in particular the works of Donatello, Filippo Lippi, and Mantegna. This wide range of influence found an audacious synthesis in the altar he painted and carved for the parish church of San Lorenzo nea
r Brunico (ca. 1465). The masterpieces of his maturity are the altar of the \i Coronation of the Virgin\i0 in the parish church of Gries (Bolzano) and the altar of the shrine of Sankt Wolfgang in Northern Austria. In Salzburg from 1494, he painted and c
arved his last great work, an altar for the cityÆs Franciscan church that demonstrates a shift toward more severe and calm forms, an evident prelude to the art of the High Renaissance.\ATXsh4607