The thesis deals with the parish church of St. Martin in Žiri, with an emphasis on its
interior equipment, especially the main altar, which is the work of the Viennese architect Anton Weber and the artist and mosaicist Leopold Forstner. Using the example of the complex and long-term process of building the church in Žiri, built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the thesis discusses contemporary church commissions in Slovenia, and within this context, the role and influence of the Society for Christian Art in Ljubljana. Using the example of the church in Žiri are presented the stylistic and aesthetic tendencies of contemporary church architecture in Slovenia, which until the First World War was almost completely subordinated to the aesthetic principles of historicism. In the church in Žiri, specifically on its main altar, are already evident deviations from the convention and the search for new stylistic paths, such as the inclusion of the Viennese secession in church art.
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