16 The Annunciation retable Urbanus de Tenum Dorfort Bavarus [...] faberlignarius [...]”. According to this contract, he was obliged to make ‘’unum ornamentum altaris ligneum‘’ for the church Gospa od Šunja within three months for a remuneration of 72 ducats. The date of the contract (4/11/1636) with Urban Bavarac, the timespan of three months, and the date found on the retable (20/3/1637) are in close proximity to each other, so it is very likely that this contract refers to the Annunciation retable.17 It should be mentioned as well that the date 20th of March is only five days before the festivity of the Annunciation (25th of March). Therefore, the workers (whoever they were) were probably rushing to finish the retable for the festivity of Annunciation.18 The altarpiece depicts the Annunciation above a sacra conversatione with the saints Nicholas, Anthony, Augustine and Carlo Borromeo. The stipes is fronted by an 18th century gilt-leather antependium (Fig. 14), which was already restored in 2001 by a student of CICS Cologne as part of her diploma thesis, but is not considered further here.19 Strong climatic fluctuations and heavy pest infestation badly damaged the woodwork, the polychromy, the gilding, and the painting, and led to considerable loss of many areas. During an earthquake, the upper storeys Fig. 12: Inscription underneath the entablature: “1637 dio 20 marcio” Fig.13: The gravestone of Bishop Nikola Brautić: „NICOLAO BRAVTIO EPO SARSINAE ET COMITI BOBII OBIIT ANODNI 1632. MENSIS MAII 27, AETATIS SUE. LXVI. EPISCOPATVS SUI XXX” (Nicholas Brautić, Bishop of Sarsina and Count of Bobium, died in the year of our Lord 1632, May 27, 66 years old, 30 years after receiving his episcopal consecration)
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