Biedrońska-Słotowa, Beata : Crossroads of costume and textiles in Poland: papers from the International Conference of the ICOM Costume Committee at the National Museum in Cracow, September 28 - October 4, 2003 (Krakau, 2005)

Agnieszka Bender

Fig. 3

Front and back of chasuble, unknown maker, Poland about 1750, The Collegiate Church in
Łowicz; photo by J. Borecki.

1759, it must have been here that the cartoons for the chasuble were made. For
a long time researchers believed Kuntze was simply a vendor delivering ready car-
toons to Glaize; today there is evidence the two artists actually worker together. The
chasuble featuring the scenes of St Stanislas's martyrdom appears to be the last in
a series of fourteen superb liturgical vestments (twelve chasubles and two dalmatics)
produced between 1743 and 1759 by Francois Glaize for bishop Andrzej Stanislas
Kostka Załuski.

The most outstanding thing about Glaize's paramenta is that they all make up the
largest group of such objects known to us. The weaving techniąue was used to make
liturgical vestments in other European workshops, yet only occasionally. The ear-
liest such raiment - a dalmatic and a chasuble from 1570 - can be found at the Met-
ropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Presumably, they were commissioned by
the van der Geer family in Utrecht25. Another superb, golden set is at the Yatican

25 Mayer-Thurman, C. C, op. cit., pp. 151-161; Standen, E. A., European Post-Medieval
Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. I, New York
1985, pp. 194-198.

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