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Warszawski pomnik Jana Tarły

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Mączyński R.

Ochrona Zabytków

1996

issue 2

159-167

The article deals with an artistically superb Baroque monument typical for the so-called portal sepulchre (containing real doors), commemorating Jan Tarło, the voivode of Sandomierz. The monument, founded by the widow, Zofia nee Krasińska, was executed from coloured marble by the Warsaw- based sculptor Jan Jerzy Plersch in 1752-1753. Originally, it stood in the Warsaw Piarist church in Długa Street but in the nineteenth century it was transferred to the post-Jesuit church in Świętojańska Street. In 1944 the monument was damaged by German bombings. Although the majority of its fragments has survived (today scattered in several places), for over half a century the monument remained, unrestored, an undertaking that deserves to be conducted owing to the fact that this is one of the most magnificent examples of Polish Baroque sculpture from the middle of the eighteenth century. The merit of the Tarło monument does not lie, as has been estimated up to now, exclusively in the masterful execution of the particular sculpture details. It comprised an unusual in Polish art excellent synthesis of various elements — both architectonic (portal-obelesk, arch) and sculpture (hermae- termini, medallion portrait, allegorical figures: Splendor, Fama, Fides) which constituted an exceptionally uniform composition. The all-sided employment of their symbolic meanings made it possible to create an extremely rich, cohesive and reflective ideological programme of the whole which comprises an important statement in the discussion concerning human condition and eschatological problems, conducted for centuries and of particular interest during the Baroque era. „The portals of death” in Tarlo’s monument do not lead into non-being or an infernal abyss but became a triumphal arch towards heavenly eternal happiness, founded on faith, and eternal fame on earth, justified by Christian and civic deeds.

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