Peter Vischer the Elder
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Peter Vischer (the Elder) (~1455 - 1529) along with his son, Peter Vischer the Younger (1487 - 1528) were greatest exponents of Renaissance plastic-work in Germany. He was buried in the Rochusfriedhof of Nuremberg, his home town. There is also a school in this town named after him, as well as a street. In the Church of St. Sebald, Nuremberg, the bones of saint after which this church was named lie in a tomb made by him and his son, Peter Vischer the Younger.