Legnica polyptych

Mikołaj Obilman's Legnica Polyptych is the major surviving altarpiece from fifteenth-century Silesia, painted for the church of Saint Peter and Paul in Legnica (Liegnitz) around the 1430s–40s. Silesian painting of this period absorbed influences from Bohemia, German Saxony, and Flemish art without aligning definitively with any single tradition, and the Legnica Polyptych reflects this hybrid position — gold-ground conventions persist while figures show a new solidity drawn from Bohemian sculptural influence. The polyptych is the principal evidence for Obilman's style and workshop capacity.

The polyptych's panels use gold grounds tooled with the dense punched patterns of the Bohemian-German tradition, over which figures are modelled in tempera with the rounded volume characteristic of Silesian workshop practice in this period. The wing panels' saints are arranged in the hierarchical full-length format standard for large Silesian altarpieces.