Cerkvi na Homcu in v Šmarci

• Superior document: Opera Instituti Artis Historiae
• Author: Lavrič, Ana; Resman, Blaž
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: Slovenian
• Series: Opera Instituti Artis Historiae
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (89 p.)

Of the Gothic church which was erected at Homec after the miraculous apparition of the Blessed Virgin in 1419 only the lower part of the free-standing bell-tower has been preserved up to this day~in the times of Turkish incursions around 1500 it was adapted to serve as a defence tower as well. Since the condition of the old church had worsened and the building had also become too small, a new sanctuary was built on its northern side in 1723, and the next year the church was pulled down and a new nave was begun on its site~the building was completed in 1728.

Gotsko cerkev, ki je zrasla na Homcu po Marijinem prikazanju leta 1419, so v letih 1723–28 nadomestili z novo, ohranili pa prostostoječi zvonik. Stavba se v prostorski zasnovi in členitvi notranjščine tesno naslanja na ljubljansko križevniško cerkev, fasada pa posnema vrhniško Sv. Trojico. Po potresu leta 1895 so cerkev obnovili. Z zamenjavo stare štirilistne križne kupole v ladji so bile uničene freske Franca Jelovška iz 1726–28~nadomestila jih je poznonazarenska poslikava Matije Koželja. Staro milostno podobo v kamnitem velikem oltaru iz delavnice Luke Misleja je v njegovi notranji niši pokrivala slika Matere Božje z romarji, delo Valentina Metzingerja~sedanjo Marijino podobo je naslikal Leopold Layer kot redukcijo Metzingerjeve. Stranska oltarja ohranjata slike in kipe s predhodnikov. Prvotna oltarja z Metzingerjevimi slikami sta zamenjala poznobaročno-klasicistična nastavka po načrtu Leopolda Layerja, ki je v atikah obdržal Metzingerjevi sliki. Oltarja in prižnico je izdelal kipar Valentin Vrbnik. Cerkev sv. Mavricija v Šmarci mora biti kar nekaj starejša od prve omembe kraja (1343). Ladja verjetno še skriva romansko jedro, ki so ga zakrile poznejše prezidave.