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Malowidła Łukasze Raedtke, freskanta 1. połowy XVIII wieku w pocysterskim kościele w Lądzie nad Wartą

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Nowiński J.

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki

2010

vol. 72

issue 1-2

149-171

Łukasz Raedtke, a convert from the Cistercian abbey at Przemęt would have been one of the first painters to work on commission for the abbey pa-tron, Mikołaj Antoni Łukomski, to decorate the abbey church dedicated to the Virgin Mary at Ląd. Born in or around 1685, he would have entered the Cistercian monastery in 1703 or 1704, while his death is recorded as being 4th March, 1722. Two known self-portraits of Raedtke, preserved in his own frescos at Ląd and Przemęt, depict the painter’s appearance at about 10 and 20 years of age Up until this point, the artist has remained completely absent from Polish art history, while his name has been associated exclusively with the mural paintings at Ląd. It is clear that he was author of the monumental decorative painting carried out around 1720 for the church of St. John the Baptist at Przemęt, in which his frescos decorate the presbytery walls, transept vaulting and canopies of the illusory cupolas. As a result of meagre archival information, Raedtke remains an artist whose biography is hidden beneath the surfaces of his executed works.

The Murals on Entrance Porch of the Faras Cathedral

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Jakobielski S.

Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)

2016

vol. 29

75–94

The aim of the article is to discuss a dating of two murals painted in a tempera technique on the walls of the southern entrance porch of Faras cathedral, namely the representations of an archangel and St Mercurius on horseback. Both were originally dated to the late tenth or the early eleventh century, but some scholars suggested that these works of arts could have been painted as late as in the late twelfth century or even later. That is at the time when area of the porch together with adjoining staircase had certainly been covered with a roof. Such a dating however, seems largely inadequate in view of the stylistic evidence and the artist’s workshop characteristics, so an effort to restore the original dating has been undertaken in the present article, in the belief that the porch must have been covered earlier in a something way. There follows a suggestion concerning construction of the original roofing. The latter part of the article concerns a possible identification of the archangel’s figure as Gabriel (and not Michael).

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Malowidła Łukasze Raedtke, freskanta 1. połowy XVIII wieku w pocysterskim kościele w Lądzie nad Wartą

The Murals on Entrance Porch of the Faras Cathedral