Teofil Lenartowicz's Madonna at Wieliczka

• Authors: Ochniak Klementyna

Title variants

PL

Madonna Teofila Lenartowicza w Wieliczce

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the Madonna (Ave Maria) relief by Teofil Lenartowicz, which is set up on a nave pillar in St Clement's Church at Wieliczka. This is a high-relief figure of the Virgin and Child, framed by a bas-relief border with the scenes illustrating the Ave Maria prayer. The work was cast in the galvanoplastic technique. The authoress identified the composition as the Ave Maria relief, executed by Lenartowicz in 1876 in Florence, which the researchers have until now believed to be lost. The artist displayed the sculpture at the exhibition of the Society for Promotion of Fine Arts (Zacheta) in Warsaw (1876), and then at the Cracow exhibition of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts, the latter Society buying it in 1877. In the 1880s, thanks to Helena Malachowska's endowment, the Madonna found its way to St Clement's Church at Wieliczka. The image of Mary, full of poetic lyricism, is akin to Nazarene painting, and especially to the works of the Austrian Joseph Führich. It reveals Lenartowicz's mastery in handling the relief sculpture technique and, exhibiting a strong connection with his other creations, permits a better acquaintance with the sculptural work of this remarkable artist.

Keywords

EN

LENARTOWICZ'S TEOFIL MADONNA (1876)

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Institute of History of Art
• Journal: Modus. Prace z historii sztuki
• Year: 2002
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 27-34
• Document type: ARTICLE

Dates

published

2002

Contributors

author

Ochniak Klementyna

• Muzeum Zup Krakowskich w Wieliczce

• K. Ochniak, Muzeum Zup Krakowskich w Wieliczce, ul. Zamkowa 8, 32-020 Wieliczka, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01553410