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FROM LENIN TO JOHN PAUL II:THE STATE OF RESEARCH ON THE WORK OF MARIAN KONIECZNY AND A FEW REMARKS UPON HIS RELIGIOUS SCULPTURES (Polish title below)

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Lamenski L.

Sacrum et Decorum. Materiały i studia z historii sztuki sakralnej

2010

vol. 3

44-57

(Polish title: Od Lenina do Jana Pawla II. Stan badan nad tworczoscia Mariana Koniecznego oraz kilka uwag o rzezbach religijnych jego autorstwa). Marian Konieczny (born in 1930) is a very controversial figure in the history of the monumental Polish sculpture of the second half of the 20th century. A student of Ksawery Dunikowski and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad, a member of the Polish United Workers' Party, the vice-chancellor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, an MP to the communist Parliament, he has never enjoyed respect or interest of art critics and historians despite being the author of a number of monuments. The researchers writing on Polish memorial sculpture ignored him pointedly, not being able to forgive him the authorship of The Monument of Warsaw Heroes in Warsaw (1964), The Memorial of Revolutionary Struggle in the Rzeszow Region in Rzeszow (1973) or Stanislaw Wyspianski Monument in Krakow (1981). Despite all his detractors, this very industrious, talented and versatile sculptor, whose preferred mode of expression is realistic, after the dramatic political change of 1989 not only did not disappear from Polish artistic life, but keeps on winning competitions and receiving commissions for new memorials, including religious ones. His works include, among others, the monumental Royal Epitaph for the Metropolitan Cathedral in Poznan (1995) and John Paul II Monument in front of the basilica in Lichen (1999). An objective examination of the biography and oeuvre of Marian Konieczny and similar artists is indispensable for the full picture of the Polish monumental sculpture of the 20th and early 21st century.

A MEMORIAL BY CYPRIAN GODEBSKIOVER THE OCEAN, A SWAN SONG OF ACADEMIC RELIGIOUS SCULPTURE (Wotum Cypriana Godebskiego nad oceanem czyli labedzi spiew akademickiej rzezby religijnej)

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Pienkos A.

Sacrum et Decorum. Materiały i studia z historii sztuki sakralnej

2010

vol. 3

9-20

Cyprian Godebski is the author of numerous monuments and tombstones, among others in Austria, Belgium and Russia, but he worked primarily in France. His works can be found in Paris (the best known among them are the headstones of H. Berlioz and Th. Gautier), Monte Carlo and Brittany. Probably the biggest extant work by Godebski, little known in Poland, is the stone group Madone des naufragés [Our Lady of the Shipwrecked] on the Atlantic promontory Pointe du Raz in the westernmost region of Brittany. Godebski, who spent most of his life in France, was connected with numerous ties to this region. Apart from this group, the most visible of this relationship is the bronze monument to general A. Le Flo, Godebski's friend from St. Petersburg (the general was a French ambassador there) in the main square in Lesneven near Brest (1899). Our Lady of the Shipwrecked (1901), commissioned from Godebski by Count de Trobriand, was going to be a private memorial to local sailors, modelled on several similar ex-votos on the shores of Brittany. However, the republican departmental authorities did not issue a permit to erect a religious monument in a public place. The refusal of the authorities was connected with the approaching decision about the separation between Church and state in France. The conflict was particularly severe in Brittany, which was considered the stronghold of traditional Catholicism, but it was also the home country of the philosopher Ernest Renan, an Anti-Christ in the eyes of some right-wing circles. The conflict escalated in 1903, when the so-called sardine crisis hit very badly Breton fishermen and various political camps, including the Catholic Church, tried to use it to expand their influence. Finally Godebski's sculpture was erected thanks to the determination of the Bishop of Quimper, to whom it was presented by the artist as a votive sculpture in memory of his son's death in Tonkin. Our Lady of the Shipwrecked was created in 1901-1903 in Carrara. The ceremonial inauguration of the figure, accompanied by a Mass, took place on 3rd July 1904. It was attended by approximately 20 - 30 000 pilgrims and the bishop attending the celebration paid tribute to Godebski. Madone des naufragés follows ancient tradition of placing crosses and religious figures on mountain tops and coastal rocks. We can find a particularly large number of colossal religious figures in the French sculpture of the 19th century, especially from the period of the religious awakening supported by the government of the Second Empire. Our Lady of the Shipwrecked differs, however, from the huge statues of the Virgin Mary erected at that time in France through its strong realism and lack of obvious allusions to Romanesque, Gothic or Baroque depictions. In contrast to his predecessors, the creators of large, static allegories or saints' figures, Godebski portrayed almost a genre scene. However, what makes Our Lady of the Shipwrecked special, are the non-artistic factors described above. It was erected in the heat of the political and religious fight in France, when the secular Republic was on an anti-Church offensive, leading to fundamental legal decisions. Did the artistic concept of the sculpture, including the undoubtedly most interesting solution of the emotional tension between the sailor and the child Jesus was consciously adopted by Godebski because of this conflict? We do not know that. The creation of the sculpture was initiated by lay people, but finally it was executed under the patronage of the Church, and it eventually turned into a new place of worship of the Virgin Mary in Brittany.

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FROM LENIN TO JOHN PAUL II:THE STATE OF RESEARCH ON THE WORK OF MARIAN KONIECZNY AND A FEW REMARKS UPON HIS RELIGIOUS SCULPTURES (Polish title below)

A MEMORIAL BY CYPRIAN GODEBSKIOVER THE OCEAN, A SWAN SONG OF ACADEMIC RELIGIOUS SCULPTURE (Wotum Cypriana Godebskiego nad oceanem czyli labedzi spiew akademickiej rzezby religijnej)