Ostatnia pierwszą, czyli o ambonie łodziowej z kościoła pw. św. św. Piotra i Pawła na Antokolu w Wilnie
The Last Being First, namely on the Ship Pulpit in the Church of SS Peter and Paul in Antakalnis in Vilnius

Summary/Abstract: The ship pulpit from the Church of SS Peter and Paul in Antakalnis in Vilnius is considered in literature a woodcarving project executed in 1803 by Giovanni Boretti and Niccolo Piano said to have been brought from Milan to renovate and refurbish the church. Actually, they were simple masons who came to Vilnius already in the late 18th century; Piano died in 1802. Meanwhile, the formal features of the pulpit show that it was executed in the 1720s, most likely after the design of Pietro Perti who co-created the exquisite stucco décor of the Antakalnis church. This happened shortly following his death in 1714, while the initiator of the works was the Antakalnis Provost Piotr Procewicz, doctor of philosophy and an appraised preacher who in 1737 became the Provost of the congregation of Corpus Christi. He commissioned a ship pulpit modelled on that raised in Vilnius for the church of the Canons Regular of the Lateran in Kazimierz in 1740-1745.

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