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Recenzje
DOI article:Kurzej, Michał: Jeannie Łabno, "Commemorating the Polish Renaissance Child": [Rezension]; Ashgate, Farnham 2011
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.32431#0202
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14. Epitaph of Anna and Mikołaj Ożarowski, parish church in Igołomia (photo: M. Kurzej)
Tęczyński family in Kraśnik 37 [Fig. 13], the epitaph of Anna
and Mikołaj Ożarowski in Igołomia [Fig. 14], interesting
in iconographic terms, where the images of the deceased
siblings had been incorporated into the depiction of the
scene Let the little children come to me, or epitaph of two
Adam Drzewicki in Drzewica from 1604, where grandfather
and grandson are figurated in the same way - kneeling in
front of the crucifix 38. It is fitting to add that caesuras of
the study adopted by the author (1500-1650) do not apply
to the material presented, since the oldest examples she
discusses date only from the second decade of the 16 th cen-
tury, whereas tombstones similar to those included [in the
work] were also produced after mid-1600, a good example
37 J. Kowalczyk, Legenda 0 pomniku Jana Baptysty Tęczyńskiego
i królewny Cecylii w Kraśniku, “Biuletyn Historii Sztuki”, 48,1986,
pp.263-276.
38 W. Łuszczkiewicz, [Rysunki nagrobków z xvi w. zebrane przez
Wyspiańskiego], “Sprawozdania Komisyi do Badania Historyi
Sztuki w Polsce”, 4,1891, p. lxv.
of which is the monument of Piotr Chronowski in Uniejów
near Miechów, dating from 1677.
The book contains numerous erroneous statements on
specific issues. Interpreting tombstones featuring a standing
hgure of a child as an expression of the Lutheran doctrine
of redemption through faith (p. 160) also stirs reservations.
They were popular in German lands, indeed, yet they were
accompanied by tombstones with the image of the deceased
kneeling in front of the crucifix. Furthermore, tombstones
with standing figures were already popular in the Middle
Ages while later they were considered appropriate also
for Catholic hierarchs 39. All said, such an interpretation
stands in contradiction with an even more bizarre opinion
expressed in another place of the book (p. 155), where the
author, referring to the example of Gdansk, claims that
protestant epitaphs mostly consisted of only an inscription
39 Numerous examples of episcopal tombstones with the standing
lmage of the deceased may be encountered in German lands (e.g.
m Bamberg and Wiirzburg), but also in Nagyszombat, in the his-
torical territory of Hungary.
14. Epitaph of Anna and Mikołaj Ożarowski, parish church in Igołomia (photo: M. Kurzej)
Tęczyński family in Kraśnik 37 [Fig. 13], the epitaph of Anna
and Mikołaj Ożarowski in Igołomia [Fig. 14], interesting
in iconographic terms, where the images of the deceased
siblings had been incorporated into the depiction of the
scene Let the little children come to me, or epitaph of two
Adam Drzewicki in Drzewica from 1604, where grandfather
and grandson are figurated in the same way - kneeling in
front of the crucifix 38. It is fitting to add that caesuras of
the study adopted by the author (1500-1650) do not apply
to the material presented, since the oldest examples she
discusses date only from the second decade of the 16 th cen-
tury, whereas tombstones similar to those included [in the
work] were also produced after mid-1600, a good example
37 J. Kowalczyk, Legenda 0 pomniku Jana Baptysty Tęczyńskiego
i królewny Cecylii w Kraśniku, “Biuletyn Historii Sztuki”, 48,1986,
pp.263-276.
38 W. Łuszczkiewicz, [Rysunki nagrobków z xvi w. zebrane przez
Wyspiańskiego], “Sprawozdania Komisyi do Badania Historyi
Sztuki w Polsce”, 4,1891, p. lxv.
of which is the monument of Piotr Chronowski in Uniejów
near Miechów, dating from 1677.
The book contains numerous erroneous statements on
specific issues. Interpreting tombstones featuring a standing
hgure of a child as an expression of the Lutheran doctrine
of redemption through faith (p. 160) also stirs reservations.
They were popular in German lands, indeed, yet they were
accompanied by tombstones with the image of the deceased
kneeling in front of the crucifix. Furthermore, tombstones
with standing figures were already popular in the Middle
Ages while later they were considered appropriate also
for Catholic hierarchs 39. All said, such an interpretation
stands in contradiction with an even more bizarre opinion
expressed in another place of the book (p. 155), where the
author, referring to the example of Gdansk, claims that
protestant epitaphs mostly consisted of only an inscription
39 Numerous examples of episcopal tombstones with the standing
lmage of the deceased may be encountered in German lands (e.g.
m Bamberg and Wiirzburg), but also in Nagyszombat, in the his-
torical territory of Hungary.