The first stage of construction of the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Maryin Kłodzko: dating, scope of work, stylistic genesis
The first stage of construction of the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Maryin Kłodzko: dating, scope of work, stylistic genesis

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article was to systematize and expand the knowledge about the church of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary in Kłodzko, and more spe-cifically, to address the oldest stage of the development of this parish church, that is the period when the first construction workshop was active on the site. Based primarily on medieval written sources, the paper specifies the dating of the dis-cussed phase, up to the first two or three decades of the fifteenth century, with the beginning of the works in 1402 or slightly later, and their end between around 1415 and 1428. We have identified fragments of the temple, made at least hypothetically by the earliest team of builders: the walls of the presbytery with the vaults of its side aisles, the lower parts of the old sacristy, and the chapel to the north of the choir. Subsequently, a formal-genetic analysis was applied in order to extend the previ-ous findings regarding the stylistic origins of the primary project (only in terms of spatial arrangement consistently implemented also by later construction teams). The spatial program, details, and vaults were compared with the Bohemian and Silesian Gothic architecture, finding potential prototypes for individual elements, which allowed for a hypothetical outline of the area of artistic education of the first master in charge of the building’s construction; the aforementioned area most probably extended at least from Prague, through eastern Bohemia and the Sudeten part of Silesia, all the way to Wrocław.

• Details
• Contents