97 The Church of Our Lady od Špilice – St Mary retable / St Joseph retable The paintings Today the St Mary retable houses two paintings on canvas. The 19th century oval painting with the Virgin Mary and the standing child in a garland of fruit and flowers is the central element (Fig. 152). It is probably based on the “Madonna in the flower garland” by Rubens and Breughel from 1617 in the Munich Pinakothek, however, here the garland consists of mediterranean fruits, flowers and laurel leaves.69 Mary is handing the child a peach while holding a brown scapular in her right hand, identifying her as “Our Lady of Carmel”.70 The gussets between the oval gilded frame and the inner edges of the retable structure are filled with symmetrically ornamented decorative panels. The lower painting shows “The poor souls in the purgatory” in a narrow rectangular format, painted on canvas and framed with a small gilded frame (Fig. 153). Some of the “souls” standing in the flames and pleading for salvation with their hands raised are wearing the brown scapular, Fig. 152: Our Lady of Carmel, as found 2011 (not part of the ICWL project) Fig. 153: Purgatory painting before treatment (as found 2011)
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