and in Poland the language of sin, guilt, and forgiveness is deeply embedded in the Church. The introduction to the Requiem Mass intones; "Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may
The direct inspiration could have been the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello on the Venetian Lagoon, built in the 7th century, to which Nowosielski referred to several times in his texts (Nowosielski 2013, p. 185). The arrangement of the icons in the apse (Theotokos above the ...