The majority of the 18th century altars in Central Europe are objects made of polychromed wood, stucco, or stone. There are, however, other altars whose retabula – as a whole or predominantly – take the form of a wall ...

Following the 1758 replacement of the altarpieces in the church of the Franciscans of Primitive Observance in Poznań, one more retable was made in 1763, this time for the monastery. It was placed in the ‘lower cloister’, ...

The article offers an outlook on the history and theology of the altar in the modern-period era in the context of the Byzantine Rite. In the Byzantine liturgy, the altar (prestoł) is separated from the nave by iconostasis ...

In a synthetic manner, the article presents the significance and function of the altar in the post-council Mass liturgy. As is commonly known, the renewal of liturgy after the ecumenical council introduced certain alternations ...

The purpose of the article is to present the research methods and structural issues related to the modern-period retabula, illustrated with an example of selected Toruń-based altars in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist ...