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Sluter and his followers in Burgun-
dy and Flanders around 1400.Late

Gothic sculpture continued in the

North, with a fashion for very large

wooden sculpted altarpieces with
increasingly virtuoso carving and

large numbers agitated expressive

figures; most surviving examples
are in Germany, after much icono-

clasm elsewhere. Tilman Riemen-

schneider, Veit Stoss and others

continued the style well into the
16th century, gradually absorb-

ing Italian Renaissance influences. tombs evolved, with the Scal-

Life-size tomb effigies in stone or iger Tombs of Verona so large
alabaster became popular for the they had to be moved outside

wealthy, and grand multi-level the church. By the 15th century
there was an industry exporting

Nottingham alabaster altar reliefs
in groups of panels over much of

Europe for economical parishes

who could not afford stone reta-
bles.