In the façade of the new Polish Resurrectionist Church (1887-1889), the most important element, dominating the modest Neo-Renaissance arrangement, is the quarter-circle-closed tympanum above the main portal. Its realisation was entrusted to the then most eminent Polish sculptor in Rome, Pius Weloński. His religious works, abundant and varied, have not yet been elaborated. During his long stay in Rome, where he had a studio, the sculptor produced a number of works, mainly related to Polish patronage. The most significant of these remains the bronze tombstone of Cardinal Włodzimierz Czacki in the church of Santa Pudenziana. For the Order of the Polish Resurrectionists, who moved in 1889 to a new church on the Spanish Steps, Weloński created, among other things, a replica of the tympanum with the Madonna from the same tombstone and bust images of the Order's founders. The tympanum was created in the year of the church's consecration, presumably in close collaboration with its builders, the architect Antonio Angelini and the priest Walerian Przewłocki. Weloński often produced sculptural works with a sacred purpose, referring to specific ancient models or melding various such references into a stylistically unified whole. He also made tympanums over the entrance to the church after his return to Poland, during the period of his collaboration with Stefan Szyller, e.g. for the rebuilt cathedral in Płock and for the parish church in Osieck. The main portal of the Church of the Resurrectionists alludes to the forms and decorative details of early Renaissance architecture in Florence and Rome. The depiction of Christ rising from the tomb and the two soldiers sleeping at the tomb is crammed rather tightly into the tympanum field. It is formulated artistically in a rather banal way. Here Weloński, who was well acquainted with the patterns of Italian Renaissance art, did not strictly refer to any particular model. The poor state of preservation of the relief makes it difficult to assess the technical quality of the work.