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Aleksander Jankowski

programmes. The issue was raised by Church
authorities. These, however, had only a limited
influence on the church interior painterly decor, as
this remained conditioned by the financial capacities
of the congregation; in the post-partition period it
was almost exclusively them who were burdened

with the church running costs. The sources show that
rural parishes, generally with more modest financing
for church renovation, limited their expenses on the
painterly decor, showing preference for cheaper
pattern-based decoration, and not the more
expensive figurative presentations.
Translated by Magdalena Iwińska