The two longitudinal walls of the nave in the Vrzdenec church were newly painted around 1410/20; the paintings reproduced the content of the older layer of paintings. In 1925, the Monuments Office took adecision to remove the later painting layer in order to present the earlier layer from the first half of the 14th century, considered more valuable due to its rarity in Slovenia. The National Gallery of Slovenia holds several of the painting fragments removed from the Vrzdenek church, two of which were part of the composition Procession and Adoration of the Magi.
The kings are dressed in looser, fashionable garments with heavily ruffled sleeves. Their faces, rendered in colour, are mostly elongated, with the exception of one figure with round cheeks. Their lips are gracefully accentuated; beards are trimmed in a fashionable (French fork) style and the hairstyles are also carefully arranged – the royal ones with plenty of draught elements, while the others, of an older type, are colour-modelled and enhanced with bright strands.
The features of the images betray the authorship of the painter, who painted in the branch church of St Lenart in Breg near Preddvor. He was assisted in his work at Vrzdenec by an even more conservative painter, as is evident from the older type of hairy border (consisting of eight-pointed stars and squares) on other fragments; nevertheless, the younger layer of paintings in the nave at Vrzdenec is already distinguished by the features of the Bohemian incarnation of the International Soft Style (hairstyles, beards, clothing).
Vrzdenec near
Horjul, succursal Church of St Cantianus