Przywracanie kompozycji Szwanera w Wilanowie

• Authors: Mądrach Piotr Grzegorz

Title variants

EN

The Restoration of the Szwaner Composition in Wilanów

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The palace and park in Wilanow were embellished with exceedingly lavish sculpture ornaments. The best known sculptors who worked for the king were Andrzej Schluter and Stefan Szwaner. The latter was the author o f one o f the most magnificent bas relief all’antica decorations o f the palace facade, depicting the deeds and victories of king Jan III Sobieski. Owing to the highly unsatisfactory present-day state of the bas reliefs, it was decided in spring 1993 to initiate conservation work. The task was entrusted to a team of artists-art conservators, headed by Piotr Grzegorz Mądrach, and composed o f Jolanta Pawlak, Zenon Sądecki, Piotr Zambrzycki and Jerzy Zebrowski. Conservation began with a thorough acquaintance with the history o f the sculptures and a detailed examination of their technical state. Close studies o f the history o f the sculptures and archive iconographie material led to an ex traordinary discovery. All descriptions, drawings and photographs prior to the 1930s present designs made by Stefan Szwaner during the seventeenth century. A radical change occurred in 1 9 3 3 -1 9 3 7 although there are no information documents telling us who, why and when altered the sculptures on the palace facade attic storey. The conservation team proposed the recreation o f the original form o f the bas reliefs. A commission o f experts: art historians, museum staff, historians, art conservators and technologists, was established. After an examination o f all arguments in favour and against the restoration o f the seventeenth — century com position, it was decided to recreate the original shape of a sculpture known as „The Expedition against the Tartar Hordes”. This work was restored by making a clay model, a plaster form and a positive cast in modified mineral mortar, reinforced with a rust-free steel net. The copy o f the Stefan Szwaner statue was then installed on the attic storey o f the Wilanow palace facade. The task was completed in the autumn o f 1994. After a period o f sixty years, we can once again admire „The Expedition against the Tartar Hordes” in the form and with the symbolic designed by its author.

Keywords

PL

kompozycje Szwanera w Wilanowie; Wilanów; Stefan Szwaner; płaskorzeźby Szwanera; odtworzenie płaskorzeźby

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1996
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 182-186

Dates

published

1996

Contributors

author

Mądrach Piotr Grzegorz

References

• J. Wojciechowski Pałac Wilanowski i jego obecna restauracja, Warszawa 1929.
• Dokumentacja prac konserwatorskich prowadzonych w latach 1 957-1958, Dokumentacja konserwatorska prac prowadzonych w latach 1 9 7 5 -1 9 7 6 , PP PKZ Oddział w Warszawie.

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247