Sleep in Renaissance Poland

Bartolomeo Berrecci's Tomb Sculpture and Its Legacy in East Central Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72492-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 82, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Focusing on the Italian architect and sculptor Bartolomeo Berrecci, this monograph examines an important subset of his sepulchral works—recumbent statuary—and offers insights into their patronage, reception, and interpretation. Berrecci’s exploration of this sculptural type predates its eventual spread beyond Italy, Spain, and Poland. Indeed, he proved so successful that well over two hundred statues can still be found in present-day Poland and Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Sweden. Although he mainly produced them for Catholic clients, examples of such monuments also exist in Lutheran, Calvinist, and Orthodox settings. The volume draws on a vast array of primary sources, visual, textual, and archival, and compares Berrecci’s workshop to the Tuscan Quattrocento workshops of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, Perugino, and others.

Originally published in Polish as Sen w rzezbie nagrobnej Bartolomea Berrecciego. Kraków: TAiWPN Universitas, 2022.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fabia&

Fabianski, Marcin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

5 Bartolomeo Berrecci’s Sleeping Figures and their Artistic Provenance 1 How Berrecci Conceived the Monument to Ludwik Mikolaj Szydlowiecki 2 Inventing King Sigismund’s Sepulchral Statue 3 Bishop Piotr Tomicki’s Effigy and Italian Art 4 Barbara Tarnowska née Teczynska: Tomicki’s Female Counterpart

6 The Expectations of Berrecci’s Patrons 1 Why Krzysztof Szydlowiecki Commissioned the Tomb of His Son 2 King Sigismund and His Sepulchral Monument 3 Bishop Piotr Tomicki Orders His Tomb 4 Hetman Tarnowski Commemorates His Wife Barbara

7 Independent Child Monuments after Ludwik Mikolaj Szydlowiecki 1 Zygmunt Szydlowiecki’s Bronze Relief 2 Szydlowiecki’s Associates and Child Tombs 3 Later Child Monuments

8 The Reception of Berrecci’s Reclining Adults 1 Knights in Armor 2 Figures in Civilian Clothes

Epilogue: the Place of Berrecci’s Dreaming Figures in European and Old Polish Culture

Appendices

Catalog

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marcin Fabianski is professor emeritus (2024) of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow. He has published monographs and articles on early modern Italian art and its reception in Poland, including Correggio Erotic Poesie (Silvana, 2000) and has curated the exhibition “Winged: Putti in Renaissance Art” (National Museum in Kraków: 2024).