„Grobowe chorążyny ścielą fata łoże”. Oprawa uroczystości pogrzebowych Anny z Potockich Mniszkowej w przemyskim kościele Dominikanów w 1758 roku
“A Graveyard Bed Has Fate Made for Madam Standard-Bearer.” The Setting of the Funeral Ceremonies of Anna Mniszek née Potocka Held in the Dominican Church in Przemyśl in 1758.

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the visual setting and the ideological programme of the funeral ceremonies held in the Dominican church in Przemyśl in the year 1758 in connection with the interment of Anna Mniszek née Potocka (ca. 1740–1758). These ceremonies were organised by her grieving husband, Adam Józef Mniszek (1721–1784), the Court Standard-Bearer of the Crown. The description of the funeral with the appendix of three prints showing the occasional decoration in the Przemyśl church belongs to the few extant printed documents of this kind, originating from the territory of the 18th-century Commonwealth. Although for many years mentioned in specialist literature, these decorations have so far not been discussed in detail. The imposing ephemeral architecture whose construction was occasioned by the funeral of Anna Mniszek née Potocka is not only an interesting addendum to the 18th-century history of the no longer extant Dominican church in Przemyśl, but also points to the extremely significant coexistence of the word and the image in the ideological content of funeral decorations in the early modern era.

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