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Parish Church of St. James

The parish priest, Ivan Mihovil Smrekar who was educated in Graz and in Vienna, commissioned the church in 1758. The citizens of Prelog paid for it with alms. In little over a decade (1765–1767) a monumental three-part high altar – a documented work of the sculptor, Veit Königer, Styria's most important sculptor of the time and cabinetmaker, Josip Herman of Graz – furnished the altar. The high altar, a monumental and typologically rare composition consists of three altars architecturally connected. Königer work betrays a clear and persistent element of Classicism, linked to his artistic training at the Vienna Academy, along with Rococo elements. A pulpit was installed in the church in Prelog before the altar (1760 is mentioned). According to stylistic analysis, the pulpit reliefs are likely to have been by Königer.

Baroque; Classicism; Rococo; 18th Century; sculpture; Veit Königer

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