Malowidło ścienne z przedstawieniem Czternastu Świętych Wspomożycieli w kościele w Morągu
Wall painting with a scene of the Fourteen Holy Helpers in the church in Morąg

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to discuss recent research on the 15th-century wall paintings preserved in the chancel of the Church of St. Apostles Peter and Paul in Morąg (Warmia / Ermland), with emphasis on the composition related to the representation of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. These paintings, despite their poor state of preservation and not high artistic value constituting one of the most important monuments of Late Gothic painting in Prussia, have so far not been fully analyzed in monographic or comparative terms – most of the issues presented in this article are discussed here for the first time. The research was based on an analysis of historical sources pertaining to the parish church and the castle in Morąg, as well as on a wide range of literature on the subject. Its primary tool was a thorough autopsy of the paintings. The research problems include issues: of form, as well as iconography, with attempts at dating. As a result, it was possible to accurately identify individual scenes: including the theme accompanying the Fourteen Helpers, discussed in the literature (which turned out to be a depiction of the miracle in Frakenthal in 1448), to put their ideological content both in the context of universal symbolic meanings and local tradition, to expend the entire cycle at the turn of the 3rd and 4th quarters of the 15th century.

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