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Sculpture “Ludowika from Kęty”

It is believed that this church sculpture, probably dating from the seventeenth century, represents the saintly Ludowika from Kęty, who lived from 1563 to 1623. Ludowika was born into a family of poor townsmen, and she spent the first period of her life in Kęty. At the age of 30, she joined a group of pilgrims heading for Rome. She remained in the Eternal City, where she joined the community of the Third Order of St. Francis.

Tags: sculpture saints 3D public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted
Technique: sculpture polychrome
Material: wood
Cabinet with pictures of saints

This piece of furniture is an example of the small cabinets that were popular in the 2nd half of the 17th and the 1st half of the 18th century. Its typical elements include a small wooden body with a folding door, small drawers, a hiding place, and a metal open-work decoration on the sides made of engraved iron sheet with a set of stylised plant motifs, figures of people, angels, and animals.

Tags: Feliks Manggha Jasieński furniture 3D saints ornament craft public domain
Subjects: daily life sculpted
Technique: engraving carpentry forging casting cutting
Material: iron birch wood beech wood
Sculpture “St. John of Nepomuk”

The figure of “St. John of Nepomuk” was made from a single piece of wood (it is not hollowed out). It was found in the River Raba.

Tags: sculpture 3D sacred art saints audiodescription 3D plus public domain
Subjects: religion rural areas sculpted
Technique: sculpture polychrome
Material: wood
Wooden cassette with triptych by Józef Mehoffer

This consists of a wooden cassette, iron-shod with brass, with a two-winged hinged lid, a brass shield at the front, with “WIELICZKA” and a crown at the top. It contains a document granting honorary citizenship of the city of Wieliczka to Doctor Kazimierz Junosza-Gałecki.

Tags: Wieliczka document Józef Mehoffer 3D saints Young Poland public domain
Subjects: city religion painted famous people written
Technique: painting
Material: wood brass glass paper
Painting “St. Kinga praying in the mountains” by Jan Matejko

St. Kinga was presented in art in two ways – as a young person in a rich princess’s costume or as an older nun in the Poor Clare habit. Jan Matejko made a deliberate statement of both conventions and portrayed St. Kinga at the age of around 60, in the princess’s robe and with attributes referring to her life at the Poor Clares Monastery (prayer book, crosier, view of the Monastery in Stary Sącz). The model for the character was Countess Katarzyna Adamowa Potocka, known from another portrait painted by Matejko – this time in a contemporary outfit.

Tags: Wieliczka Jan Matejko 2D sacred art saints painting public domain
Subjects: religion painted mountain famous people
Technique: painting oil painting
Material: oil paint board
Salt sculpture “St. Barbara”

The sculpture was carved in green salt and represents Saint Barbara. The figure stands on a cubic pedestal.

Tags: mine salt mining sculpture sacred art saints © all rights reserved
Subjects: religion sculpted
Technique: sculpture
Material: salt
Rock salt hair and fibrous salt

White salt hair grows on a light grey marl loam. Salt hair is a very original form of those taken by halite. Fibres – in fact, halite crystals in special conditions – grow in one direction. Sometimes, the density of fibres may favour their crystal clumping. The hair then transforms into a fibrous salt, preserving a specific needle structure.

Tags: Wieliczka salt 3D saints nature public domain
Subjects: surprising nature
Material: salt
Sculpture “St. Anna” from 16th century

The Renaissance sculpture depicts a woman standing. Her right hand, which has not survived to this day, pressed a book to her chest; with the left one she holds a coattail.

Tags: Renaissance saints sculpture 3D sacred art 3D plus public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted
Technique: sculpture polychrome
Material: wood
Did you know that The cult of St. Barbara

Saint Barbara, as the patron of good death, was worshipped above all by those who were most vulnerable to sudden and unexpected death: miners, steel workers, sailors, fishermen, soldiers, stone-cutters, and prisoners. Today, Saint Barbara is primarily considered to be the most important patron of miners. However, in Wieliczka, the miners used to pray primarily to St. Kinga, St. Anthony, and St. Clement.

Tags: Kraków Salt Works Museum in Wieliczka Wieliczka mining cult saints © all rights reserved
Subjects: religion
Did you know that Feretron

Feretron (a procession float) derives from the Greek pheretron, meaning “litter” (in Latin feretrum — litter, bier, stretcher). It is an object akin to a stretcher, often with additional rods, formerly used in ancient Greece to carry the statues of deities.
Feretron is a term applied to a special type of paintings or sculptures depicting the images of saints, set on special platform, which were once used in processions during ecclesiastical ceremonies and also as a portable altar during pilgrimages.

Tags: religion tradition saints sacred art liturgy © all rights reserved
Subjects: religion
Did you know that Salt sculptures in the Wieliczka salt mine

Sculptures made in salt are typical of mines in Wieliczka and Bochnia. In our portal they are represented by images of St. Kinga and St. Barbara. Salt is a difficult material. It is softer and more flexible than stone; however, on the other hand, salt blocks may have invisible cracks...

Tags: sculpture Kraków Salt Works Museum in Wieliczka mine salt saints © all rights reserved
Subjects: sculpted
Did you know that Salome III – a Biblical seductress

Seductive Salome, as a symbol of a femme fatale, became a character of numerous paintings, sculptures, literary and musical works. She excited the imagination of artists, especially in the decadent period of fin de siècle, when possessive and lethal femininity constituted one of the most important motifs in art.

Tags: death Bible Błąd nazwy saints woman Creative Commons licenses
Subjects: famous people body death
Set of twelve spoons with busts of the Apostles and the Szeliga and Przeginia coats of arms

The preserved Polish inventories dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries inform of a rather high number of silver and gold spoons being the property of the royal court, the Polish aristocracy, the nobility and the bourgeoisie.

Tags: ornamental techniques coat of arms silversmiths 3D saints tableware public domain
Subjects: religion at the table written
Technique: struck gilding chiselling casting
Material: silver
Sculpture “St. Onuphrius”

The sculpture originates from a wayside shrine and represents St. Onuphrius the hermit.
The massively built saint is kneeling with his hands folded at the chest in prayer. He is naked, with his body covered only with his long hair and a beard with a surface underlined with carved undulating lines. He has a broad face, hair with a parting across the middle of the head, a straight long nose, opened eyes and lips surrounded by facial hair.

Tags: sculpture chapel tradition folk art 3D sacred art saints audiodescription 3D plus public domain
Subjects: religion rural areas sculpted
Technique: sculpture polychrome
Material: wood
Sculpture “St. Stanislaus” (“St. Martin of Tours”?)

The sculpture was made of polychrome and gilded lime wood. It presents the Saint in bishop’s robes, in a lively position: his body is slightly turned to the left and bent, his left leg lunged. The bishop is holding the hem of the coat in his right hand. With his left hand, he is picking up a man with a moustache from the ground, dressed in a short hooded coat and trousers, depicted in a reduced scale.

Tags: saints sculpture 3D workshop audiodescription gothic sacred art Catholicism 3D plus public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted
Technique: gilding sculpture polychrome
Material: linden wood
Sculpture showing “St. Anna” from 18th century

An altar sculpture showing an unknown saint, probably saint Anna, was made by an unknown artist in the 18th century. It supposedly comes from the wooden All Saints’ Church in Kęty which was dismantled on the command of Austrian authorities. The main reason for this decision was the poor technical condition of the building. Moreover, after the great fire which broke out in 1797, there were attempts to eliminate the wooden buildings from the centre in order to reduce the danger.

Tags: sculpture Silesia baroque saints 3D sacred art 3D plus public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted
Technique: sculpture polychrome
Material: wood
Sculpture “Saint Anthony the Abbot”

The sculpture comes from the Renaissance retable of the no longer existing altar from Wawel Cathedral dedicated to Saint Anthony the Abbot. The altar was dismantled in 1746. The further fate of the sculpture had remained unknown until 1900, when it became the property of Stanisław Larysz-Niedzielski of Śledziejowice.

Tags: sacred art Wawel Cathedral sculpture 3D plus saints Catholicism WMM Plus public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted
Technique: forging sculpture polishing
Material: brown marble
A Statue of Saint Stanislaus

This sculpture in the round depicts the figure of St. Stanislaus in pontifical robes, but without the attributes. The figure was originally placed on top of the western façade of Wawel Cathedral, but it was removed during conservation works in 1898, and it was replaced with a copy made by Zygmunt Langman.

Tags: Kraków sacred art Wawel Cathedral sculpture 3D plus romanesque art saints Catholicism WMM Plus public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted
Technique: forging sculpture polishing
Material: limestone from Pińczów
Sculpture “Salome” by Walery Gadomski

Salome, the daughter of Herodias and stepdaughter of King Herod Antipas, danced so beautifully that the ruler let her ask for anything she wanted. Her wish, suggested by cruel Herodias, was John the Baptist’s head. Biblical Salome is one of frequent motifs in the iconography of European art. The archetype of a dangerous seductress fascinated artists of all epochs.

Tags: Bible sculpture Błąd nazwy authority 3D plus saints erotism public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted body
Technique: forging sculpture grinding
Material: white marble
Painting “St. John the Almoner” from parochial church in Racławice Olkuskie

The painting was created on a rectangular board, closed from above by an ogee arch and encompassed with small pillars. The standing figure of John the Merciful has been placed in the background, pressed in the mortar (silvering and glaze with the motif of an outgrowing acanthus plant twine).

Tags: Catholicism saints religion gothic 2D sacred art painting public domain panel painting
Subjects: religion painted
Technique: gilding silver-plating painting sculpture tempera pressing glaze
Material: wood tempera board
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