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GOTYCKA PIETA W LASZEWIE KOLO WIELUNIA
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Zaliczając Pietę w Łaszewie do rzeźb stylu pięknego o zabarwieniu miesz-
czańskim, możemy czas jej powstania określić na ok. 1430 r., przyjmując
tę datę za górną granicę pełnego rozwoju twórczego w odniesieniu do rzeź-
by śląskiej^4. Taki czas powstania znajdujemy też w katalogu ziemi wie-
luńskiej33.
THE GOTH1C PIETA IN LASZEW NEAR WIELUŃ
S u m m ary
The area around Wieluń, to which Laszew belongs, compared to other lands in Wielkopol-
ska (Great Poland), is rich in Gothic sculpture. It results from the favorable situation of this
place. It is here that important commercial and Communications routes met. In the Middle
Ages the Wieluń area connected Western Małopolska (Little Poland) to Wielkopolska and to
Gdańsk Pomerania, and the Sandomierz region and Mazovia to Silesia. Through frecjuent
contacts with Silesia various cultural trends easily reached the Wieluń area; including the ones
that came to us from Czech and German lands via Silesia. At that time Wieluń belonged to
the leading average-sized towns in Poland. There were about ten various guilds there. probably
including a woodcarvers’ guild. However, most sculptures and paintings of that time originated
in the nearby Silesia, an active Gothic art center. Within the Wieluń district there are about
twenty Gothic sculptures and paintings, and among them one of the most beautiful sculptures,
the Pieta in Laszew. The works are not very well described in history of art; they are only
mentioned in catalogues of old works of art in the Wieluń area.
The Pieta in Laszew does not have a sculpture that would correspond to it in the Wieluń
area. In that region it is the only example of presęntation of Virgin Mary Dolorous with the
dead body of Christ on her knees that was so popular in the Middle Ages. A formal and
ideological analysis points to the period around 1430 as the time when it was sculpted. Howe-
ver, it is difficult to State unambiguously from which workshop it originated. The thesis seems
probable that it came from the nearby Silesia, although remembering how active Wieluń was
in the 15lh century, one cannot rule out the possibility that it was sculpted in that town itself.
Translcited by Tadeusz. Karłowicz
Słowa kluczowe: Wieluń, Pieta z Łaszewa, rzeźba gotycka.
Key words: Wieluń, the Pieta in Laszew, Gothic sculpture.
34 M. Z 1 a t, Sztuki śląskiej drogi do gotyku. [w:] Późny gotyk. Materiały Sesji Stowarzy-
szenia Historyków Sztuki, Wrocław 1962, s. 146.
35 KZSz; Łoziński, Powiat wieluński, s. 370.
227
Zaliczając Pietę w Łaszewie do rzeźb stylu pięknego o zabarwieniu miesz-
czańskim, możemy czas jej powstania określić na ok. 1430 r., przyjmując
tę datę za górną granicę pełnego rozwoju twórczego w odniesieniu do rzeź-
by śląskiej^4. Taki czas powstania znajdujemy też w katalogu ziemi wie-
luńskiej33.
THE GOTH1C PIETA IN LASZEW NEAR WIELUŃ
S u m m ary
The area around Wieluń, to which Laszew belongs, compared to other lands in Wielkopol-
ska (Great Poland), is rich in Gothic sculpture. It results from the favorable situation of this
place. It is here that important commercial and Communications routes met. In the Middle
Ages the Wieluń area connected Western Małopolska (Little Poland) to Wielkopolska and to
Gdańsk Pomerania, and the Sandomierz region and Mazovia to Silesia. Through frecjuent
contacts with Silesia various cultural trends easily reached the Wieluń area; including the ones
that came to us from Czech and German lands via Silesia. At that time Wieluń belonged to
the leading average-sized towns in Poland. There were about ten various guilds there. probably
including a woodcarvers’ guild. However, most sculptures and paintings of that time originated
in the nearby Silesia, an active Gothic art center. Within the Wieluń district there are about
twenty Gothic sculptures and paintings, and among them one of the most beautiful sculptures,
the Pieta in Laszew. The works are not very well described in history of art; they are only
mentioned in catalogues of old works of art in the Wieluń area.
The Pieta in Laszew does not have a sculpture that would correspond to it in the Wieluń
area. In that region it is the only example of presęntation of Virgin Mary Dolorous with the
dead body of Christ on her knees that was so popular in the Middle Ages. A formal and
ideological analysis points to the period around 1430 as the time when it was sculpted. Howe-
ver, it is difficult to State unambiguously from which workshop it originated. The thesis seems
probable that it came from the nearby Silesia, although remembering how active Wieluń was
in the 15lh century, one cannot rule out the possibility that it was sculpted in that town itself.
Translcited by Tadeusz. Karłowicz
Słowa kluczowe: Wieluń, Pieta z Łaszewa, rzeźba gotycka.
Key words: Wieluń, the Pieta in Laszew, Gothic sculpture.
34 M. Z 1 a t, Sztuki śląskiej drogi do gotyku. [w:] Późny gotyk. Materiały Sesji Stowarzy-
szenia Historyków Sztuki, Wrocław 1962, s. 146.
35 KZSz; Łoziński, Powiat wieluński, s. 370.