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DOI Artikel:Kurzej, Michał: Jeannie Łabno, "Commemorating the Polish Renaissance Child": [Rezension]; Ashgate, Farnham 2011
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tombstones like that - e.g. the 1607 tombstone of Sophie
Stuart in the Westminster Abbey), yet the author failed
to explain why a separate tombstone for a child would be
proof of different social conditions compared to including
a child in a family mausoleum. She limited herself to stat-
ing that the situation in Poland was completely different 20.
Earlier children’s tombstones whose existence chal-
lenges Labno’s thesis may be found in many other coun-
tries where they had been erected already in the Middle
Ages. The most exquisite Italian examples include the
tombstone of Guarniero degli Antelminelli (11327), the
son of prominent military leader Castruccio Castracani,
in the church of St. Francis in Sarzana, produced by Gio-
vanni di Balduccio 21 and a monument to three children of
Giovanni Nicoló Trivulzio (f 1512) in the family chapel at
the church of St. Nazarus in Milan 22 [Fig. 3]. Among the
North European examples, attention is due to the tomb-
stone of Joachim (f 1460), the son of the King of France
Louis xi in Halle in the Netherlands [Fig. 4], which is all
the more interesting that its creation (unlike in the case
of Polish monuments) may really be connected to the cult
of Mary 23. Children’s tombstones are very abundant in
German lands 24, while the tradition of erecting them is
also old, as attested by epitaphs of Johann and Dieter von
Hanau-Lichtenberg (both f 1473) in Babenhausen [Fig. 5].
Plates with the image of a kneeling child also occurred in
the 16 th century 25, in time losing popularity and yielding
to the image of a standing hgure 26. Several monumetal
7. The epitaph of Anna Elberts, cemetery church of St. Laurent in
Freudenberg (photo: L. Aufsberg)
20 “In Poland, the situation was very different. Here the child monu-
ments valued the children in their own right, as individuals, and
included inscriptions, verses and family symbols” (p. 208).
21 J. Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, Italian gothic sculpture, London
1996, p. 254.
22 D. Apollonio, II mausoleo Trivulzio. Bramantino e Leonardo,
Poggio a Caiano 2009.
23 The Sanctuary of Our Lady the Black Virgin in Halle was famous
as a place where children were healed and brought back to life.
Cf. H. Schnitker, Margeret ofYork on Pilgrimage: The Exercise
ofDevotion and the Religious Traditions ofthe House ofYork, [in:]
Reputation and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Europe, ed.
D. L. Biggs, p. D. Michalove, A. Compton Reeves, Leiden 2004, p. 92.
24 It can be easily verified submitting a query to the generally accessible
photo-collection of University of Marburg (www.bildindex.de).
25 E.g. epitaph of a girl of the von Mandelsloh family, probably 11583,
in Bad Miinder am Deister; epitaph of Judith von Salza, 11610, in
Ebersbach near Gorlitz.
26 E.g. epitaphs of Christoph and Otto von Ebeleben, both 11568,
in Sangerhausen; a double epitaph of the Pfeifer brothers, 11591
and 1592 in Leising near Dóbeln; an epitaph of Anna Ritter, 11595
in Marienkirche in Berlin; an epitaph of Helena von Alvensle-
ben, 11621, in Beeskow; an epitaph of Brigida Wolffskeelip, 11631,
presently in Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; a double
epitaph of the Silberschmidt sisters, both 11632, in Weiden in
der Oberpfalz; a double epitaph of the von Bassenheim sisters in
Niederzissen; an epitaph of Bernard Wittenhofer, M679, in Celle.
6. The epitaph of Eleonore of Saxony, church of Our Lady in Freiberg
(photo: M. Kurzej 2014)
tombstones like that - e.g. the 1607 tombstone of Sophie
Stuart in the Westminster Abbey), yet the author failed
to explain why a separate tombstone for a child would be
proof of different social conditions compared to including
a child in a family mausoleum. She limited herself to stat-
ing that the situation in Poland was completely different 20.
Earlier children’s tombstones whose existence chal-
lenges Labno’s thesis may be found in many other coun-
tries where they had been erected already in the Middle
Ages. The most exquisite Italian examples include the
tombstone of Guarniero degli Antelminelli (11327), the
son of prominent military leader Castruccio Castracani,
in the church of St. Francis in Sarzana, produced by Gio-
vanni di Balduccio 21 and a monument to three children of
Giovanni Nicoló Trivulzio (f 1512) in the family chapel at
the church of St. Nazarus in Milan 22 [Fig. 3]. Among the
North European examples, attention is due to the tomb-
stone of Joachim (f 1460), the son of the King of France
Louis xi in Halle in the Netherlands [Fig. 4], which is all
the more interesting that its creation (unlike in the case
of Polish monuments) may really be connected to the cult
of Mary 23. Children’s tombstones are very abundant in
German lands 24, while the tradition of erecting them is
also old, as attested by epitaphs of Johann and Dieter von
Hanau-Lichtenberg (both f 1473) in Babenhausen [Fig. 5].
Plates with the image of a kneeling child also occurred in
the 16 th century 25, in time losing popularity and yielding
to the image of a standing hgure 26. Several monumetal
7. The epitaph of Anna Elberts, cemetery church of St. Laurent in
Freudenberg (photo: L. Aufsberg)
20 “In Poland, the situation was very different. Here the child monu-
ments valued the children in their own right, as individuals, and
included inscriptions, verses and family symbols” (p. 208).
21 J. Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, Italian gothic sculpture, London
1996, p. 254.
22 D. Apollonio, II mausoleo Trivulzio. Bramantino e Leonardo,
Poggio a Caiano 2009.
23 The Sanctuary of Our Lady the Black Virgin in Halle was famous
as a place where children were healed and brought back to life.
Cf. H. Schnitker, Margeret ofYork on Pilgrimage: The Exercise
ofDevotion and the Religious Traditions ofthe House ofYork, [in:]
Reputation and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Europe, ed.
D. L. Biggs, p. D. Michalove, A. Compton Reeves, Leiden 2004, p. 92.
24 It can be easily verified submitting a query to the generally accessible
photo-collection of University of Marburg (www.bildindex.de).
25 E.g. epitaph of a girl of the von Mandelsloh family, probably 11583,
in Bad Miinder am Deister; epitaph of Judith von Salza, 11610, in
Ebersbach near Gorlitz.
26 E.g. epitaphs of Christoph and Otto von Ebeleben, both 11568,
in Sangerhausen; a double epitaph of the Pfeifer brothers, 11591
and 1592 in Leising near Dóbeln; an epitaph of Anna Ritter, 11595
in Marienkirche in Berlin; an epitaph of Helena von Alvensle-
ben, 11621, in Beeskow; an epitaph of Brigida Wolffskeelip, 11631,
presently in Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; a double
epitaph of the Silberschmidt sisters, both 11632, in Weiden in
der Oberpfalz; a double epitaph of the von Bassenheim sisters in
Niederzissen; an epitaph of Bernard Wittenhofer, M679, in Celle.
6. The epitaph of Eleonore of Saxony, church of Our Lady in Freiberg
(photo: M. Kurzej 2014)