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On a side altar in St. Nicholas' parish church at Brzeziny, one can find a Late Gothic relief 'Mourning over the Dead Christ' (around 1501) that has never been sufficiently formally and historically explained. Via examining its connections to works by Veit Stoss and to altars from Lucky (1470-1480) and Arnutovce (1490 -1500) in Slovakia, the article, paying tribute to the 500 anniversary of the church's...
Eugeniusz Kazimirowski painted the oil-painting Jesus Christ as the Divine Mercy in 1934 under the patronage of Father Michał Sopocko, who served as a confessor to Saint Maria Faustyna of the Most Blessed Sacrament and championed her mystical experiences, especially the crucial one from February 22, 1931 - a direct basis of the painting. Its devotional effectiveness - the devotion to the Divine Mercy...
The article deals with a sumptuous mausoleum in the Italian all'antica style - the Sigismund Chapel (1515-1533) - initiated by King Sigismund I (1467- 1548), who was educated within the circle of Cracow humanists (e.g. Filippo Buonaccorsi, called Callimacho Esperiente). It offers information on the process of raising and decorating the edifice adjacent to the Cracow's Cathedral, description of external...
The article concerns Veit Stoss' works associated with Italy. His possible relationships with Italians in Krakow - Stoss came to Krakow in 1477 - are discussed here and suggestions are offered for the broader context within such contacts might have taken place. Like the figure of St Roche in SS. Annunziata and the Crucifix in Ognissanti, the sepulchral plaque of the Italian humanist Filippo Buonaccorsi,...
Polish painting of the 19th century was formed in Central European context; however, it had its own specialties. On one hand, there were mutual tendencies in development of landscape- and portrait-painting, on the other, because of complicated political conditions, the ideologically spotted historical painting made it possible to touch in its own way problems of nationality. The article exemplifies...
The paper examines why Jan Bialostocki found interest in the work of Georg Kubler, especially in his book: The Shape of Time. Remarks on the History of Things (New Haven - London 1962), which begins and ends with an attack on iconology. The Polish art historian reviewed and then cited it a great deal. His conception was to have constituted a reply to the crisis of the concept of style, and above all,...
The article takes a closer look at the artistic life in Krakow at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Activities of the artists, led by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, and all in the social-café-salon life make it possible to distinguish a completely new kind of bohemianism: exquisite, noble and even aristocratic. Krakow Bohemians comprised of the very elite of the cultural life: renowned artists – mainly...
A review of the baroque iconography of various orders of the knights of the Cross (inter alia with the red heart, with the red star) reveals that their imagery was based on the motives and scenes typical of Christian art – like the Wood of Cross, its founders (St. Helene, St. Macarius) and defenders (Constantine the Great, Heraclius, holy knights). However, the study of written sources created by...
In 2011, a sensational discovery was made in the former Cistercian presbytery in Cieplice Slaskie Zdroj (Warmbrunn), currently a district of the city of Jelenia Gora (Hirschberg) in Silesia: a collection of almost 90 baroque frescoes was discovered beneath layers of plaster. Among these was a cycle of estimated 54 paintings (only 26 were actually uncovered) dedicated to the persona of St. Bernard...
Portrait galleries of bishops have been known in the Latin Christendom since the early Middle Ages, attesting the important role that the ius imaginum – originally a major privilege of Roman patricians – had played in the propaganda of the Church. Of the thirteen portraits that have survived to this day in the portrait gallery of the cloisters of the Franciscan friary in Krakow, a unique example of...
The altar sculptures for the Dominicans and Jesuits in Lublin realized around the same time – in the late 1750s and early 1760s – are the best-known figurative works made by Sebastian Zeisel. They use high quality, fully developed rococo plasticity in the luminaire of the baroque theatrum sacrum. The works for Lublin most fully revealed the creative possibilities of the sculptor. The form was shaped...
This paper presents the lesser-known aspects of Cubism in Poland in the field of both aesthetic practice and theory, staying in the shadow of the mainstream documented in a tendentious way in the canonical art history. This way it contributes to the revision of the narrow view of the artistic processes and to the remapping of the traces of cultural exchange and transformation of aesthetic and ideological...
The study presents an analysis of a relief bust from the manor house Jabłonna near Warsaw with the self-portrait of the famous Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli. Based on a thorough research of the work of art the author dates its origin back to the years 1555 - 1559, integrating it with some self-portraits of the artist from Florence and Strasbourg. He also points to formal features of the relief,...
The Sigismund Chapel, a work of Bartolomeo Berrecci from the years 1515-1533, holds a very important position in the history of Polish art. In the Stalinist understanding the Sigismund Chapel presented a unified work. Everything that reminded of decorative elements (especially the figures of saints) has been removed from the analysis, or at least suppressed of their Christian testimony. In this way...
Close formal affinities between the decorative portals in the south aisle and porch of Saint Catherine’s church of the Hermits of Saint Augustine in Cracow-Kazimierz and the three nave portals of the parish church (now cathedral) in the city of Košice (now in Slovakia, in the medieval period – in Upper Hungary) were discovered by August Essenwein as early as over 150 years ago. Undoubtedly, the above...
This paper addresses the issue of Romanesque sculpture and presents it by means of describing the ensemble of masks preserved in the Romanesque, partially reconstructed, church dedicated to the Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a symbol of Inowrocław. This text addresses the well-known sculptures analysed from a contemporary research and methodological perspective in respect of the history of medieval...
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