This bachelor seminar paper deals with the parish church of St. Anne in Cerkno (ger. Kirchheim, it. Circhina) during the period of its construction (the time of the great Tolmin peasant revolt) and the remainder of the 18th Century, with a particular emphasis on its interior furnishings. Although the church today is dominated by furnishings from more recent periods, these are of lower quality than Baroque furnishings. The paper discusses two stone altars with their accompanying features, the pulpit, the sacristy cabinet, a large altarpiece and two paintings preserved from disused altars. Other Baroque furnishings are known from sources and literature.
In addition to the furnishings, the ecclesiastical history of the period under consideration is presented in broad outline, particularly the relationship between the Counts of Tolmin (it. Tolmino) and the Chapter of Cividale.
Important artists created both the church itself and its furnishings: the architect Maček from the Poljane Valley, Carniolan painter Fortunat Bergant, and the painter from Udine Francesco Pavona. The sculptor Janez Straus, native to Cerkno, was already known in literature. We successfully traced the record of his baptism in the register of the Cerkno parish.
The other creators of the furnishings remain unknown, but their identities may be resolved through a more detailed clarification of Frulian and Gorizian painting, and perhaps also sculpture. It is up to future research to determine who the two artists, Tomaso Tirolese and Floriano Bonificane, who are known from a source for a Baroque altar in Cerkno (1723), were.
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