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kings Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki and John III Sobieski, were
built in 1753-1760 to designs by Francesco Placidi. The imposing
tomb of Bishop Kajetan Soltyk, which unfortunately disrupts the
unity of the Holy Cross Chapel, was executed in 1789 to a design
by Father Sebastian Sierakowski.
The neo-Classicism of the first half of the nineteenth century
left a few more examples of tomb sculpture, among them the
monuments of Wlodzimierz and Artur Potocki by the famous
Bertel Thorvaldsen. After almost three hundred years, works by
Florentine sculptors reappeared in the Cathedral. Sentimental
monuments of white Carrara marble commemorate the painter
Michal Skotnicki (his tomb, by Stefano Ricci, is a replica of a work
in the Florentine Santa Croce Church), as well as Stanislaw
Ankwicz and Anna Wqsowicz nee Tyszkiewicz. The beginning of
the twentieth century brought two interesting works by Antoni
Madeyski: the tomb of Queen Hedwig and the monument to
Ladislaus II, based on the gothic royal tombs.
The paintings in the Cathedral do not compare in richness to
the sculptural works. Old wall-paintings, except for the Ruthenian
mural in the Holy Cross Chapel, are only fragmentarily preserved.
There are, however, some good examples of murals from the
period of Young Poland: Wlodzimierz Tetmajer’s in the Holy
Trinity Chapel, and Jozef Mehoffer’s in the Szafraniec Chapel and
the Treasury, along with some stained-glass windows from this
period. The best easel paintings are the altar-wings in the Sigis-
mund Chapel by Georg Pencz, a number of works by Tadeusz
Konicz, and the Crucifixion by the great seventeenth-century
Italian painter Guercino, purchased by the Potockis for their
burial chapel. The Chapter House library has a valuable collection
°f illuminated manuscripts dating from the eighth to the sixteenth
centuries.
93- Interior of Our Lady Chapel with the tomb of King Stephen Bathory by Santi
Gucc‘. >59!
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kings Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki and John III Sobieski, were
built in 1753-1760 to designs by Francesco Placidi. The imposing
tomb of Bishop Kajetan Soltyk, which unfortunately disrupts the
unity of the Holy Cross Chapel, was executed in 1789 to a design
by Father Sebastian Sierakowski.
The neo-Classicism of the first half of the nineteenth century
left a few more examples of tomb sculpture, among them the
monuments of Wlodzimierz and Artur Potocki by the famous
Bertel Thorvaldsen. After almost three hundred years, works by
Florentine sculptors reappeared in the Cathedral. Sentimental
monuments of white Carrara marble commemorate the painter
Michal Skotnicki (his tomb, by Stefano Ricci, is a replica of a work
in the Florentine Santa Croce Church), as well as Stanislaw
Ankwicz and Anna Wqsowicz nee Tyszkiewicz. The beginning of
the twentieth century brought two interesting works by Antoni
Madeyski: the tomb of Queen Hedwig and the monument to
Ladislaus II, based on the gothic royal tombs.
The paintings in the Cathedral do not compare in richness to
the sculptural works. Old wall-paintings, except for the Ruthenian
mural in the Holy Cross Chapel, are only fragmentarily preserved.
There are, however, some good examples of murals from the
period of Young Poland: Wlodzimierz Tetmajer’s in the Holy
Trinity Chapel, and Jozef Mehoffer’s in the Szafraniec Chapel and
the Treasury, along with some stained-glass windows from this
period. The best easel paintings are the altar-wings in the Sigis-
mund Chapel by Georg Pencz, a number of works by Tadeusz
Konicz, and the Crucifixion by the great seventeenth-century
Italian painter Guercino, purchased by the Potockis for their
burial chapel. The Chapter House library has a valuable collection
°f illuminated manuscripts dating from the eighth to the sixteenth
centuries.
93- Interior of Our Lady Chapel with the tomb of King Stephen Bathory by Santi
Gucc‘. >59!
187