the two great religious cultures of the commonwealth, latin and eastern orthodox, coexisted and penetrated each other, which is reflected in the great popularity of icons ("pic. 13") and the icons resembling effigies of mary, as well as the metal dresses typical of the orthodox church in the predominantly latin territories of today's poland (black madonna) and lithuania (our lady of the gate of dawn). the implementation of post-renaissance naturalism and the sentimentality of the polish baroque in orthodox painting as well as the creation of the cossack baroque style in architecture, also inspired by polish patterns, were the major factors of latin infiltration into eastern orthodox art ("pic. 3").