Portal główny kościoła św. Jakuba w Sandomierzu. Zawiązek interpretacji treści dzieła
Main Portal of St Jamesís Church in Sandomierz. Germ of the Workís Content Interpretation
Author(s): Tadeusz JurkowlaniecSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Architecture, History of Church(es), 6th to 12th Centuries, 13th to 14th Centuries, History of Art
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Sandomierz; Dominican Church of St James; brick architecture; portal; sculptural decoration; computus; commemorating the founders; Iwo Odrowąż;
Summary/Abstract: The main portal of the Dominican Church of St James in Sandomierz (after 1226 - before 1253?) was bricked with a specially designed brick (shallow portico, ca 12-cm-thick) and regular ones (tympanum, ca 8-cm-thick) with the use of several stone blocks. The types of the portal supports, motifs of their decoration, and numbers involved show that the workís composition was based on the principles of Christian time measuring (19-year moon cycle and 28-year solar cycles). The conversion of the cyclical time calculation to the linear one enables to decipher the period 1167-1233 in the portal. If seen within that time limit, the decoration motifs allow to initially identify e.g., Duke Leszek the White (d. 1227) and his wife Grzymisława (d. 1258), as well as Bishop Iwo Odrowπż (d. 1229).
Journal: Biuletyn Historii Sztuki
- Issue Year: 83/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 213-251
- Page Count: 39
- Language: Polish