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DOI article:Kaminska, Rūta: The late Baroque church interiors of Livonia within pre-partition Poland
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.34475#0466
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RUTA KAMIŃSKA
5. DuMgnvpz'R JaymY c/mrc/i. Lew
of Tie v/dc o/Roi TAoto.' 7 944,
Z5*777RDC
approval in Rome in 1736, construction started in 1737, and the church was consecrated in
1746^ but arranging of interiors continued during the late-18th century. Although some
artists who have made some interior furnishings in different periods are known, the
anonymous architect is most widely responsible for the overall look of the interior. This
basic structure is evident even after reconstructions that transformed the building into a
Russian Orthodox Church after 1820 and included it in the territory of the newly-built
Daugavpils fortress. Major reconstruction took place in 1870 but the Lutheran
congregation carried out their alterations of the church interiors in 1928-1940. It is known
that side altars next to the pillars and luxurious wood-carved confessionals were destroyed
as early as the first half of the 19th century but in 1870 the stucco decoration was chiselled
off, the polychrome interior finish was removed, the sandstone sculptures decorating
pillars were lost and the finishing details of three remaining altar retables were also
destroyed. The building has not survived, it was destroyed in 1944 and pulled down after
1951, but church cellars were used for storing vegetables.^
SGLOVACKIS, op. cit.,p. 233.
^ Latvian State Inspection for Heritage Protection, The Centre of Documentation (LSIHP), fiie „Daugavpils cietokspa
baznlca".
RUTA KAMIŃSKA
5. DuMgnvpz'R JaymY c/mrc/i. Lew
of Tie v/dc o/Roi TAoto.' 7 944,
Z5*777RDC
approval in Rome in 1736, construction started in 1737, and the church was consecrated in
1746^ but arranging of interiors continued during the late-18th century. Although some
artists who have made some interior furnishings in different periods are known, the
anonymous architect is most widely responsible for the overall look of the interior. This
basic structure is evident even after reconstructions that transformed the building into a
Russian Orthodox Church after 1820 and included it in the territory of the newly-built
Daugavpils fortress. Major reconstruction took place in 1870 but the Lutheran
congregation carried out their alterations of the church interiors in 1928-1940. It is known
that side altars next to the pillars and luxurious wood-carved confessionals were destroyed
as early as the first half of the 19th century but in 1870 the stucco decoration was chiselled
off, the polychrome interior finish was removed, the sandstone sculptures decorating
pillars were lost and the finishing details of three remaining altar retables were also
destroyed. The building has not survived, it was destroyed in 1944 and pulled down after
1951, but church cellars were used for storing vegetables.^
SGLOVACKIS, op. cit.,p. 233.
^ Latvian State Inspection for Heritage Protection, The Centre of Documentation (LSIHP), fiie „Daugavpils cietokspa
baznlca".