Baroque furnishings in the Church of St. John the Baptist in Ljutomer

Abstract

The contribution discusses the Baroque furnishings the parish Church of St. John the Baptist in Ljutomer. Rather than the same period, the sculptural furnishings were produced between the end of the seventeenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries, with the current main altar built the last as the oeuvre of the Maribor-native sculptor Jožef Holzinger. Another known sculptor commissioned for the church in Ljutomer was Franz Abraham Schackhar from Leibnitz (Slo.: Lipnica), whose workshop constructed the Altar of the Holy Cross. An important written source for conducting research on the furnishings in the church is the manuscript chronicle that the priest Matej Slekovec compiled in 1896 by drawing on the no longer existing archival sources, kept in the parish house of Ljutomer. The contribution presents the pulpit and the altars in comparison to other, more or less contemporaneous altars in Slovenia and Austria, it assesses their quality and brings forth some archival data on their designers.