Main Altar

The main altar dates from 1766-1770. The sculptural parts were executed by Maciej Polejowski with the participation of Jan Obrocki, and the gilding by Maciej Miller and Józef Łukaszewicz. It was restored twice, in 1988 and from 1999 to 2001, and was fully conserved by Jan Wiłkojć and his team in 2008.

The altar was built on a plan adapted to the polygonal shape of the presbytery’s closure, with a single axis on a high doubled pedestal, single-story, with a crowning. It is constructed with a series of composite pilasters breaking forward on the sides and columns set against them, with side openings on the central field opening to the windows in the slanting walls of the presbytery closure. On the supports, there is a prominent, strongly broken entablature.

The crowning was built with pillars and volutes, closed by a profiled arch with an openwork field opening to the central window of the closure, in the upper part filled with a radiant glory with the hierogram MARYA. The main field was executed in the form of a niche closed with a basket arch, in which a small silver sheet retable was set, composed of columns supporting sections of entablature forming the so-called Domus Sapientiae, made by Józef Łukaszewicz before 1776. In the retable is the painting “Our Lady with Child” (Our Lady of Grace, also known as Our Lady of Domagaliczów), by Józef Szolc-Wolfowicz, tempera on board, 1598, with the painter’s signature: JOZEF WOL\FOWIC | PINXIT (originally an epitaph painting for Katarzyna Domagaliczówna).

The painting was conserved by Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski in 1904, Józef Nykl from 1978-1983, and Anna Kostecka in 1996. The painting is set in a complexly shaped silver repoussé frame, dating from the third quarter of the 18th century, with an accompanying dress and crowns made by Piotr Chalier, 1773-1775, with gold set with gemstones. On the sliding panel is the painting “The Assumption of the Virgin Mary,” by painter Antonio Tavellio, oil on canvas, 1778, conserved by Ewa Wiłkojć and Justyna Wyszkowska-Baścik in 2005.

On the sides, on consoles between the columns, are sculptures of Saint Augustine, Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Ambrose, and Saint Jerome. On the entablature, on the volutes, are sculptures of kneeling angels. Additionally, in the upper part of the retable are sculptures of cherubs. Rocaille ornamentation. The antependium dates from the late 19th or early 20th century, conserved in 2009 by Marianna Kwiatkowska from Lviv under the direction of Jan Wiłkojć, textile, embroidered with beads, with the hierogram M on the axis and rosettes on the sides.