MEMORIAL PORTRAITS OF BISHOPS SAMUEL MACIEJOWSKI AND FRANCISZEK KRASINSKI IN THE CLOISTER OF THE FRANCISCAN FRIARY IN CRACOW

• Authors: Krzysztof J. Czyzewski , Marek Walczak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Portrait galleries of bishops have been known in the Latin Christendom since the early Middle Ages, attesting the important role that the ius imaginum – originally a major privilege of Roman patricians – had played in the propaganda of the Church. Of the thirteen portraits that have survived to this day in the portrait gallery of the cloisters of the Franciscan friary in Krakow, a unique example of its kind, the paper concentrates on selected examples, e.g. portraits of two prominent bishops from the early modern era, Samuel Maciejowski (1545 – 1550) and Franciszek Krasinski (1572 – 1577).

Keywords

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PORTRAIT GALLERY; EARLY MODERN ERA; FRANCISCAN FRIARY; POLAND; ICONOGRAPHY; ROMAN MILLIEU

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 148 – 170

Contributors

author

Krzysztof J. Czyzewski

• Zamek Krolewski na Wawelu, Panstwowe Zbiory Sztuki, PL-31-001 Krakow, Poland

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Marek Walczak