St Florian’s altar
- Style
- Baroque
- Date
- 1692
- Material and technique
- Wood
- Size
- 7 m high x 2.45 m wide
- Location
- Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Żagań, Poland
- Description
- On the fourth pillar is a wooden altar of St. Florian from 1692, funded by Abbot Andrew Adalbert of the Jelenia Góra workshop. In the centre is a 19th century painting, by an unknown author, depicting St. Florian extinguishing a fire. To the left of the painting is a statue of St Lawrence with a lattice, to the right, St Agatha holding her breasts on a bowl, and to the side is a small statue of St Apolonia, patron saint of dentists. In the predella, an oil painting by Jeremiah Knechtel, The Adoration of the Three Kings. The altar is surmounted by a sculpture of a cross among palm branches.
