Stylistyka religijnego malarstwa monumentalnego Lwowa z końca XIX i początku XX wieku
Stylistics of Lviv religious monumental painting in the late 19th and early 20th century

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to analyse the stylistic changes in Lviv's religious monumental painting between 1890 and 1914. The best religious buildings of the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria are characterised by an intense interaction of spatial arts. Lviv painters demonstrated their ability to solve a complex artistic problem - the creation of an architectural-painting ensemble. Their decorative works were characterised by an organic connection with the tectonics and function of the buildings. Decorating the interiors of large sacred buildings with the means of mural painting concretised their purpose. Lviv’s monumental painting, often associated with sacred architecture, was caught up in the patterns of academism of the time. In competition with Academism and Historicism, Art Nouveau in the works of Stanislaw Debicki, Kazimierz Sichulski, Marian Olszewski, Modest Sosenko and other artists, along with the Neo-Byzantine school of Mykhailo Boychuk, soon began to assume the function of the avant-garde.

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