Grobowa kaplica Gąsiorowskich w Nowej Wsi koło Warki w województwie radomskim

• Authors: Guttmejer Karol

Title variants

EN

The Gąsiorowski Sepulchral Chapel in Nowa Wieś near Warka (the Voivodeship of Radom)

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The sepulchral chapel in Nowa Wieś was erected in 1828 by the then owner o f the local estate — Tomasz Gąsiorowski. In contrast to other Classicistic sepulchral family chapels and fashionable park pavilions, it does not emulate ancient distilos, prostylos or monopteros temples. Its form was inspired by the classical funeral urn or sarcophagus. In Poland, a similar form appeared for the first time in 1793 when the renowned architect Szymon В. Zug designed a garden pavilion — the Tomb o f Illusions — for the residence o f Halina Radziwiłł in Arkadia, near Łowicz. Its project was never realised and was probably employed for the chapel in Now a Wieś by the architect Wilhelm Henryk Minter, who after the death o f Zug purchased the majority o f his designs. The similarity between the Tomb o f Illusions and the sepulchral chapel in Now a Wieś is not accidental. Minter, the author o f primarily monumental and austere military buildings, referred to the stylistic o f the French avantgarde such as David Gilly and J ean-Nicolaus-Louis Durand. He also built o f a small Classicistic palace in Falęcin, close to N ow a Wieś. Much seems to indicate that he could have been the author o f the unique object. The rank o f the chapel is enhanced by an illusionistic architectonic polychromy covering the walls and ceiling, and modelled on classical patterns. The state o f the preservation o f the chapel and, predominantly, the polychromy is highly disturbing and requires urgent conservation intervention.

Keywords

PL

kaplica Gąsiorowskich; kaplica grobowa; Bogumił Zug; Grobowiec Złudzeń

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1997
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 165-168

Dates

published

1997

Contributors

author

Guttmejer Karol

References

• Katalog zab y tk ow sztuki w Polsce (dalej KZSz), t. X, woj. warszawskie, z. 5, Powiat Grojec, oprać. I. Galicka, H. Sygietyńska, Warszawa 1973, s. 52.
• Archiwum Głowne Akt Dawnych, Komisja Wojewodztwa Mazowieckiego, Wydział Wyznań Religijnych (dalej AGAD, KWM), Akta Szczegołowe tyczące się Kaplicy prywatnej w Nowej Wsi Obwodu Warszawskiego, sygn. 6371.
• M. Kwiatkowski, Romantyczne mauzoleum grobowe w Arkadii, „Biuletyn Historii Sztuki”, R. XXVIII, 1966, z. 1, s. 101-104; tenże, Szymon Bogumił Zug. Architekt Polskiego Oświecenia, Warszawa 1971, s. 2 7 7 -2 8 1 .
• T. S. Jaroszewski, A. Rottermund, Jakub Hempel, Fryderyk Albert Lessel, Henryk Ittar, Wilhelm Henryk Minier. Architekci polskiego klasycyzmu, Warszawa 1971, s. 18 1 -2 1 4 .

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247