Upcoming Exhibition

Workshop of Johannes de Laybaco, Sunday Christ, 1455–60 (reconstruction: Marijan Tršar, 1955), Škofja Loka Museum. Painter Marijan Tršar completed the fresco reconstruction using colours he assumed matched the original artwork. Many scenes that were still discernible from the preserved remains in 1955 are now no longer clearly recognisable. <em>Photo: Janez Pelko</em> — Workshop of Johannes de Laybaco, Sunday Christ, 1455–60 (reconstruction: Marijan Tršar, 1955), Škofja Loka Museum. Painter Marijan Tršar completed the fresco reconstruction using colours he assumed matched the original artwork. Many scenes that were still discernible from the preserved remains in 1955 are now no longer clearly recognisable. *Photo: Janez Pelko*

17 June 2026 – 16 August 2026

C’ngrobsk’ Turn Gallery, Church of the Annunciation in Crngrob

Curators: Anabel Černohorski, Mojca Šifrer Bulovec, Simona Žvanut

External expert collaborator: Urban Koložvari

The monumental fresco on the west-facing exterior wall of the pilgrimage Church of the Annunciation in Crngrob depicts the Sunday Christ. Created between 1455 and 1460, this work originated from the workshop of Johannes de Laybaco, one of the best-documented medieval fresco painters in the territory of the present-day Slovenia. The presumed donors, or possibly even clients who commissioned the artwork, were the guilds of Škofja Loka.

The Sunday Christ fresco depicts the suffering Christ surrounded by the Instruments of the Passion. The central field is framed by nine horizontal strips containing at least fifty scenes of the day-to-day work that believers were supposed to abstain from on Sundays and feast days, serving as a symbolic torment of Christ. The subject is based on the Third Commandment: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

The exhibition explores the fresco from historical, ethnological and art-historical perspectives, placing it within the context of everyday life, artistic tradition and spiritual culture of the late Middle Ages.