POLSKA PÓŁNOCNO-ZACHODNIA (WIELKOPOLSKA I KUJAWY)

• Authors: Karłowska-Kamzowa Alicja

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NORTH-WESTERN POLAND

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

New paintings have been uncovered on the historical site of Great Poland, i.e. at Pyzdry and at Ostrzeszów (3 phases). Painted decorations in that region are rather rare and it is difficult to present a line of the development of this branch of art. Still, they can be used for the analysis of somewhat different nature. Paintings in the organ-loft in St John’s Church at Gniezno (ca mid- 15th century) provide the example of the emphasis put on architectonic divisions through wall decorations. It was also there that the picture of 4 Holy Virgins and Vir Decorum was applied in the wall-painting for the first time. Paintings in the chapel at the Cistercian cloiser at Ląd (the seventies of the 14th century) are the example of the introduction of themes associated with a knightly founder and with a clearly politically pronounced ideological programme. A spatially expanded scene of the Greeting of Three Kings was also shown for the first time in Poland. On the eastern wall of the niche (most probably originally the chapel), next to the galleries of the Franciscan cloister at Pyzdry a wooden altar retable was imitated. Then, decorations in the organ-loft in the church a t Przyczyna Górna (phase I), most probably the work of a Silesian artist, contain an interesting didactic programme, expressed by atypical iconographie renderings. In the aisle of the church, next to the representation of the Crucifixion, there were placed symbolic representations of deadly sins (at present badly preserved), coming from the late Gothic period (phase П). And so, just like in Ląd, a significance of these paintings (phase I and II) comes down mainly to iconography and ideological contents, while painted decorations in the aisle of the parish church at Ostrzeszów (phase II and III) are the example of inprinting Gothic forms employed in the 16th century in the artistic vision of guild artists.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1980
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 130-131

Dates

published

1980

Contributors

author

Karłowska-Kamzowa Alicja

• doc. dr hab., Instytut Historii Sztuki Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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