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The altar wings are not dated nor signed. The time of their creation can be inferred either by comparing to the manuscript painters in contemporary context, or biographical content of the patron of the altar. Jaromir Pešina states that the author of the piece was in contact with St. George's altar, whose work dates to early in the second half of the 15th century, newly assigned to Czech late Gothic panel painting. Milena Bartlová considered the painter as a member of the Prague workshop environment with knowledge of the Nuremberg masters (Hans Pleydenwurff) and Brussels patterns (Dirck Bouts). Jan Royt states that the artist who painted panels was aware of the Wrocław Master painting in the altar of St. Barbara, which could be instrumental in these Western European influences. These conjectures allow dating the genesis of the retable in 1470 to 1480s. In the event that the purchaser of the altar was a Hussite captain Jakoubek of Vřesovice, who died in 1467, dating emergence retable it can be shifted to the 1460s. The Church of St. Wenceslaus in Roudníky, for whose altar it was intended, is already mentioned as a parish in 1352, and was rebuilt in the Gothic style in 1486.
retable altar of St. Barbara Dirck Bouts Gothic style Hans Pleydenwurff St. George's altar Roudníky late Gothic Nuremberg masters Wrocław Master Jakoubek of Vřesovice