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Main altar
Author, school, workshop
Unknown
Style
Rococo
Date
1734
Material and technique
Wood painted over marble
Size
10 m high
Location
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Żagań
Description
The formally developed altar consists of a retable, a coping, a predella and a mensa with a tabernacle, a three-bay retable with a semicircular vaulted niche in the centre with a painting of the Annunciation. The central part is delimited by columns and pilasters, between which are set sculptures representing the Fathers of the church. The retable is finished with an openwork gallery, and above it there is a cornice with sculptures of saints: Catherine, Anne, Barbara and Hedwig. It is crowned by a colonnade arranged on either side of the central window. On the cornice of the colonnade - figures of angels.