The Netherlands – Lübeck – Gdańsk. On the Artistic Provenance of Late Gothic Sculptures of the Virgin and Child from Garczyn and Sianów ; Niderlandy – Lubeka – Gdańsk. O artystycznym pochodzeniu późnogotyckich rzeźb Marii z Dzieciątkiem z Garczyna i Sianowa

Two parish churches in small Kashubian villages: Sianów near Kartuzy and Garczyn near Kościerzyna, feature two preserved late Gothic wooden sculptures of the Virgin and Child. Quality‑wise, they are by no means provincial works; on the contrary, both figures can be ranked among the best sculpture pieces from the vicinity of Gdańsk created in the latter half of the 15th century. The sculptures display similar formal and stylistic features, and are closely akin to each other in view of the iconography; they seem to have had the same artistic source and come from the same place. There is rather s... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Woziński, Andrzej
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Verlag/Hrsg.: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Sprache: Polish
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Two parish churches in small Kashubian villages: Sianów near Kartuzy and Garczyn near Kościerzyna, feature two preserved late Gothic wooden sculptures of the Virgin and Child. Quality‑wise, they are by no means provincial works; on the contrary, both figures can be ranked among the best sculpture pieces from the vicinity of Gdańsk created in the latter half of the 15th century. The sculptures display similar formal and stylistic features, and are closely akin to each other in view of the iconography; they seem to have had the same artistic source and come from the same place. There is rather scarce literature available on either. The present study contributes to it with some new observations. Far‑reaching formal and stylistic analogies suggest that the two figures were created around the same time, among the same artistic circle, highly likely in one workshop; additionally, they may have been executed by the same artist. It is, however, very unlikely for works of such high quality to come from rural parish churches. The close vicinity of Gdańsk, as well as the genesis of the figures’ style could suggest that they might have come from one of Gdańsk’s churches. Both sculptures have a very close equivalent in the double presentation of the Virgin with Child in the Church of St Christopher in Werne (Kreis Unna) in North Rhine‑Westphalia. It seems that the figures in Garczyn and Sianów, as well as the Werne work, are variants of the formal model outstandingly implemented in the stone statues of the Virgin and Child in the Lübeck Cathedral and the Hamburg Church of St Peter, executed mostly likely by an artist active in Lübeck. Following historical records, the figures can be dated at 1460‒70. The Garczyn and Sianów statues additionally reveal kinship with other Lübeck works as for their form, execution technique, and material. The similarities allow for the hypothesis that the two works in question originate from Lübeck from around 1470‒80, though they were not necessarily executed there. Interestingly, the works ...