JESUS CHRIST AS THE DIVINE MERCY BY EUGENIUSZ KAZIMIROWSKI. THE MOST INFLUENTIAL POLISH PAINTING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY?

• Authors: Ivan Gaskell
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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 via various congregations and orders - worldwide in the Catholic Christianity and its role in the transformations of Poland in the 20th and early 21st centuries make this painting one of the socially most influential paintings of the twentieth century.

Keywords

EN

DEVOTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS; KAZIMIROWSKI EUGENIUSZ; OIL-PAINTING; POLAND; REPRESENTATION

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 81-91
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ivan Gaskell

• Ivan Gaskell, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA08676