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The paper discusses the iconography of the 18th century monumental painting adoring the church of the Franciscan Observantists (referred to as the Bernardines) at Leżajsk has been based on examples of the vaulting paintings forming part of the temple’s homogeneous Baroque interiors. The work was carried out by group a group of painters originating from the artists’ milieu of Lwów. While the painters Wojtanowski and Kłosowski worked on the vaulting , presbytery and nave in the years 1750-51, the decorative programme was to be completed by Stanisław Stroiński collaborating with Mateusz and Maciej Miller in 1757-58. Each of these artists would most probably have been associated with the religious order painter, Benedykt Mazurkiewicz, who represented the vernacular Lwów school of illusionists painting influenced by Bologne. The theme of the murals in large part resulted from the pragmatic politics conducted by the Observantist Franciscans whose desire it was engaged in missionary work in the eastern territories of pre-Parton Poland.