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Ornat autorstwa Francois Glaize’a - francuskiego tapisjera działającego w Polsce w XVIII w. ponownie odkryty

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Powązka J.

Ochrona Zabytków

2001

issue 1

104-108

In the coursé of gathering material for the theoretical part of a diploma study written at the Chair of the Conservation of Historical Fabrics in the Department of the Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the author amassed all data concerning the life and works of François Glaize, the renowned French weaver who worked in Poland in 1743-1770. The Glaize workshop produced unique liturgical vestments made with the Gobelin technique, large wall hangings, antependia, and Gobelin portraits and pictures. Polish and foreign collections have preserved 28 objects ascribed to his workshop. The most productive was the almost twenty years-long period of co-operation with Bishop Andrzej Stanisław Kostka Załuski, an outstanding patron of Polish art, who probably contributed to bringing Glaize over to Poland. The most magnificent fabrics from this period undoubtedly include the recently discovered ornate from the Salesian monastery in Czerwińsk, up to now listed as lost, probably owing to an oversight in the inventories. The ornate was rediscovered in the course of preparations for an exhibition entitled “The Salesian Order as the Heir of the Monastic Legacy in Czerwińsk”, featured at the Diocesan Museum in Płock from 26 January to 21 March 1999. The front and back of the ornate are decorated by a candelabra-arranged motif of a plant-floral tendril, intertwined into gold-ribbon cartouches. The sophisticated colours of the fabric are accentuated by a masterly application of threads mixed with gold and silver. This technique was widely applied in the Glaize workshop and comprised its characteristic feature. The skillful use of assorted types of metallic threads produced the effect of the glittering of particular elements. An additional employment of convex rep twine rendered the surface of the fabric more plastic and accentuated the lavishness of the vestment. A perfect combination of refined decoration, colours and technique of execution make it possible to regard the titular object as a true gem of eighteenth-century weaving.

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Ornat autorstwa Francois Glaize’a - francuskiego tapisjera działającego w Polsce w XVIII w. ponownie odkryty