The church fathers Ambrose and Augustine

Michael Wolgemut was the leading painter of Nuremberg before Dürer, running the city's largest workshop and producing altarpieces, portraits, and the woodcuts for Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle. This The church fathers Ambrose and Augustine was created around 1480 and is now held at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. The tempera medium required careful preparation on a gessoed panel and a disciplined layering technique that produced precise, durable surfaces suited to the intricate detail expected of devotional painting.

Oil on panel with the Franconian painting tradition's honest naturalism and careful craftsmanship. The work demonstrates the artistic qualities characteristic of Michael Wolgemut's period.