Revelations: Janez Wolf (1825–1884)

December last year marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Janez Wolf (Leskovec near Krško, 26 December 1825 – Ljubljana, 12 December 1884), one of the central figures of 19th-century painting in Slovenia and regarded as the founder of the late Nazarene style in this region. In addition to his key role in the development of ecclesiastical art in Slovenia, his pedagogical influence was equally significant. As a teacher and mentor, he educated a generation of Slovenian painters, among them Janez (1850–1889) and Jurij Šubic (1855–1890) and Anton Ažbe (1862–1905).

The Revelations presentation brings together two recently restored Neo-Gothic triptychs: the Triptych of the Virgin and Child, painted by Wolf during his student years in Venice, and the Triptych with St Joseph from his late period. Also on display are three designs for the decoration of the presbytery of the parish church of St Stephen in Vipava, as well as two studies of the Baptism in the Jordan for a fresco on the northern façade of Ljubljana Cathedral, where Wolf restored the faded mural paintings by Giulio Quaglio (1668–1751).