Wooden Crucifix Eremitu

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One of the most valuable oeuvre d’art of the whole region is to be found in the 19th century church of Eremitu: a carved wooden crucifix. For a long time it was believed that this masterpiece is the work of the famous,late Gothic and early Renaissance sculptor Veit Stoss, who workedin Krakow and Nuremberg. It is more likely, however, that the crucifix is rather the handwork of Stoss’s two sons, Johann and Veit Stoss junior,who settled in Transylvania –establishing a workshop in Sighisoara.