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On a side altar in St. Nicholas' parish church at Brzeziny, one can find a Late Gothic relief 'Mourning over the Dead Christ' (around 1501) that has never been sufficiently formally and historically explained. Via examining its connections to works by Veit Stoss and to altars from Lucky (1470-1480) and Arnutovce (1490 -1500) in Slovakia, the article, paying tribute to the 500 anniversary of the church's consecration, shows the complicated, multi-layered and changing context of the artistic development in the Carpathian region.