Madonna z Kazimierza Dolnego. Dzieje własności
The Madonna of Kazimierz Dolny. History of Property

Summary/Abstract: The sculpture of the Beautiful Madonna of Kazimierz Dolny was created around 1420–1430. Until 1935 it was in the parish church in Kazimierz Dolny, then it was loaned to the Institute of Art Propaganda in Warsaw for an exhibition entitled Polish Gothic Art. The article presents archival material, hitherto unpublished, on the history of the sculpture’s loan and subsequent attempts to recover it in Communist Poland. Ownership of the sculpture was transferred to the Treasury under the Decree on Abandoned and Derelict Property of 8 March 1948, which was finally confirmed by a Supreme Court ruling in 1965. Efforts were made to recover the sculpture shortly after the war by the parish priest of Kazimierz, Rev. Hipolit Boratyński, and architect Karol Siciński, who was rebuilding the town, then destroyed after the war.

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