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DOI Artikel:Kaminska, Rūta: The late Baroque church interiors of Livonia within pre-partition Poland
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RUTA KAMMSKA
7. C2u7vV/'c cA^rcA. Dew o/ fAe /A'gA /1/A/r.
PAofo; 2070, /d7A/ Tfrvwvr.s'Au
experience in comparison with these buildings in the Dukedom of Courland. Possible
sources of influence related to Russian Baroque^ are still not confirmed by any
documents. One conclusion may be drawn: the Jesuit church interior at Daugavpils marks
a new, peculiar trend in 18th-century solutions of church interiors design in the territory of
Latvia, developed later in Polish-controlled Livonia in particular; step by step, adding
fresh accents provided by decor examples of Baroque sculpture and painting.
In the 1760s. new stone churches emerge in several comers of Polish Livonia. They
largely feature faęades with two flanking towers, except in the case of the church at
Kraslava with has no tower solution and different forms of interior decor. The same
masters have worked both here and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, although the only
names known today are those of the Paracco family^ and Jan Tobiasz Dydreyszten^. The
'"GLOVACKIS, op. cit., p. 231.
^ Anthony Paracco is mentioned, for example, as the author of Druja Synagogue and Dominican Church: Lgtnws'
nrcAzYgAfMms' AtoA/'a, vol. II, Vilnius 1994, p. 158.
*6 The architect realised commissions from the Count Konstanty Ludwik Plater in Kraslava in the mid-18th century.
RUTA KAMMSKA
7. C2u7vV/'c cA^rcA. Dew o/ fAe /A'gA /1/A/r.
PAofo; 2070, /d7A/ Tfrvwvr.s'Au
experience in comparison with these buildings in the Dukedom of Courland. Possible
sources of influence related to Russian Baroque^ are still not confirmed by any
documents. One conclusion may be drawn: the Jesuit church interior at Daugavpils marks
a new, peculiar trend in 18th-century solutions of church interiors design in the territory of
Latvia, developed later in Polish-controlled Livonia in particular; step by step, adding
fresh accents provided by decor examples of Baroque sculpture and painting.
In the 1760s. new stone churches emerge in several comers of Polish Livonia. They
largely feature faęades with two flanking towers, except in the case of the church at
Kraslava with has no tower solution and different forms of interior decor. The same
masters have worked both here and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, although the only
names known today are those of the Paracco family^ and Jan Tobiasz Dydreyszten^. The
'"GLOVACKIS, op. cit., p. 231.
^ Anthony Paracco is mentioned, for example, as the author of Druja Synagogue and Dominican Church: Lgtnws'
nrcAzYgAfMms' AtoA/'a, vol. II, Vilnius 1994, p. 158.
*6 The architect realised commissions from the Count Konstanty Ludwik Plater in Kraslava in the mid-18th century.