13 The retables of the church Gospa od Šunja The retables of the church Gospa od Šunja Also built in this late 15th-century period marked by prosperity and extensive construction, this parish church was consecrated in 1488 and now features 7 altars.12 The plain building with a rectangular nave and a barrel-vaulted, recessed square choir was extended in two later construction phases by side chapels in the form of transepts, creating a cruciform floor plan (Fig. 2, 7). The wooden high altar retable, which has been attributed to the Venetian sculptor and altar designer Paolo Campsa, was consecrated in 1572 and is in fact the second retable to have been situated here.13,14 In the left-hand chapel, built in 1527, stands the late 16th-century retable of the Passion of Christ (Holy Cross retable), (Fig. 8, 9). This retable, with its life-size crucifix from Mexico imported sometime around 1567, now succeeds an older St Roch retable attested to in the inscription on the chapel’s arch. The inscription reads: “HOC TIBI DIVE ROCHE THOMAS Fig. 7: Gospa od Šunja, floor plan
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