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to be an iiwentory of an existent building. It is very difficult to establish for which Jesuit
church the drawing was intended. However, this is not the Jarosław church and college, as
one might judge from the fact of the presence, on one sheet, of this drawing and a design
for the church in Jarosław and from the fact that this is an aisleless church with a transept
formed by chapels (such was the original form of St John's Church). The Jarosław church
had different proportions and a much shorter nave. Besides, the college edifice was situ-
ated on the opposite side of the church, and there are no references to any earlier wooden
buildings in Jarosław. It seems that the closest affinities with the structure shown in the
drawing should be sought in the architecture of Observantine churches (in which, e.g. an
elongated chancel is almost the rule).

However, the collections of The Getty Research Institute include yet another drawing
which in Bury's catalogue bears no. XV and which he has hitherto erroneously consid-
ered to belong to one set together with the drawings on sheets XIII and XIV (presenting
a design for a Jesuit college at Ostróg (?) and the faęade of the Church of SS. Peter and
Paul in Cracow). This drawing (ill. 3) should actually be linked with the remodelling of St
John's Church in Jarosław. It shows a cross-section of the above-discussed three-storeyed,
nine-axial porch added to the faęade of the church. One can see that the entrance from one
side of the western porch is also preceded by a three-storeyed portico (which constitutes
another axis). The wali divisions in the lower storey are articulated by wide pilaster-strips
doubled on both sides and terminating in segments of cornice on which rest semicircular
arches decorated with mouldings. A rectangular entrance on the axis, flanked by pairs of
pilaster-strips, is closed by a basket arch. On both sides are smaller arched rectangular
entrances on the axes marked out by the added chapels, surmounted by a moulding and,
additionally, semicircular windows. On the second storey, there was a rectangular entrance
on the main axis, in an arched rectangular panel, and on the lateral axes large semicircular
thermal windows with a balustradę filling their lower part. The top storey was provided
with rectangular windows (blind on the inner axes); the storey was interrupted on the main
axis, where a tripartite window in a "Palladian" surround was set, probably in the gable
of the church nave. In addition, the drawing shows schematic divisions of the outer side
elevations, in the lower storey by means of demi-columns on plinths, carrying an elaborate
entablature; these divisions are repeated on the second storey; the whole elevation is sur-
mounted by a parapet. Briano's drawing shows the iron anchors holding the new and the
old part of the structure together.

By comparing the extant building (ill. 4) with the surviving designs one can clearly
see that they were only partially implemented. Neither the axial tower nor the monumental
three-storeyed portico by the porch on the west side was erected.

Nevertheless, a comparison between the first and the last drawing discussed here
permits a fuller verification of the hypotheses advanced by Jerzy Paszenda. The drawings
determine the dating of the history of extension of the edifice. The original church was
immediately provided with side chapels and part of the porch. The chapels were domed, as
they are today. The parapet on the southern chapel was designed by Briano, because it is
visible in the section which shows the divisions of the elevation that have been preserved
to this day. Thus the entire remodelling work on the church was carried out before the 1625
fire, during Briano's first stay in the Polish Commonwealth (1616-1621), as it was then
that he performed the function of inspector of the Jesuit fabricae.

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