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The contribution focuses on the file of late Renaissance painted epitaphs from the historical territory of the so called Bohemian Silesia, though there is a range of monuments of unclear provenience. Nevertheless, they can be connected with Silesian environment being connected with specific iconography comprising mainly the motive of Allegorical Crucifixion. This unequivocally points at commemorative and representative monuments as well as peculiar 'confessional media', referring about the confession of its customers. Therefore it appears that so far used predominantly formally-analytical approach to these problems requires also examining even the complex social background of epitaph monument, which often speaks in their iconographic themes with distinct confessional language.