One of the most important sculptors of the German Renaissance, Conrat Meit was influenced by antique culture and by the German tradition of detailed naturalism. Meit probably trained in Lucas Cranach the Elder's workshop, and by 1511 he was working in Wittenberg for the Saxon Elector Friedrich the Wise. This learned patron also employed Cranach and Albrecht Dürer. In 1514 Meit was named official c
