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“A tondo representing three personifications of arts” by Stanisław Popławski

The present plaque in the form of tondo is sometimes mistakenly described as a representation of The Three Graces. In reality, the relief depicts three personifications of art: painting (the woman on the left, holding a palette), architecture (the woman in the middle, holding a model of a building) and sculpture (the man holding the head of a statue). Inspired by ancient art, Poplawski used a characteristic composition typical of the depiction of the Graces, and the characters are represented as idealized nude figures.

 

Tags: Virtual Małopolska © all rights reserved Ancient Greece bas-relief 3D plus
Subjects: sculpted body
Technique: casting
Material: gypsum
Legionary plaque of the town of Kęty

This plaque, like many similar ones in Galicia, was prepared in order to raise funds to support the widows and orphans of soldiers fighting during World War I. This manner of collecting money became popular during World War I. This was related to the financial burden that fell on the Austrian government. The reason for this was mainly the costs associated with the increasing number of wounded and victims.

Tags: war World War I 2D bas-relief public domain Polish Legions
Subjects: city war memory
Technique: sculpture polychrome
Material: wood metal
Renaissance plate

This plate was originally located above the entrance gate to the city of Biecz. It belonged to Mikołaj Ligęza from Bobrek (c. 1530–1603) who obtained the position of starosta (district governor) of Biecz in 1561, through his marriage to Elżbieta née Jordan, and in 1575 – the position of the governor of Biecz Province from Jan Tarło.

Tags: coat of arms Renaissance 3D baronage bas-relief 3D plus public domain
Subjects: authority city sculpted memory
Technique: engraving forging sculpture stonework
Material: sandstone
Mithraic relief

The object presented here comes from Carnuntum, the Roman army camp and city situated on the Danube between Vienna and Bratislava. The bas-relief depicts a scene of a bull being killed by Mithra. The deity, dressed in a Roman tunica and wearing a Phrygian cap, is kneeling and supporting the animal with his left knee.

Tags: mitology customs bas-relief 3D animals 3D plus Gods beliefs public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted death
Technique: engraving forging sculpture
Material: white marble
Stela with four figures from Kom Abu Billou
A “family” stela showing a married couple (?) and two children in prayerful attitudes, one above their feet and the other opposite them. The adults, who are missing the upper bodies and heads, are depicted on a coach with mattress, one in front of the other, supporting themselves each on the left elbow resting on two pillows. Compositions with several figures are rare on stelae from Kom Abu Billou.
Tags: Christianity Ancient Egypt bas-relief archeology 3D necropolis 3D plus WMM Plus public domain stela
Subjects: religion sculpted death
Technique: engraving sculpture
Material: limestone
Stela of man from Kom Abou Billou from the 1st half of the 3rd century

The deceased rests on a couch with mattress in a repetition of a composition that is already known from the Stela of the son of Chairemon and Isidora. The differences are insignificant: a wreath held in the extended right hand and a different arrangement of the feet, which are crossed in this case. Both the mattress and the pillows are decorated with rhomboids. The features of the face are not very clear, but a flat wide nose predominates.

Tags: death Ancient Egypt bas-relief archeology necropolis 3D plus WMM Plus public domain stela
Subjects: religion sculpted death
Technique: engraving sculpture
Material: limestone
Bas relief “Fallen Angels” by Stanisław Wyspiański

In 1895, Stanisław Wyspiański made a polychrome project for the presbytery of a Franciscan church. The composition consists of three elements: the titular fallen angels, at which the group of archers aims, and the figure of Archangel Michael, who guards the gates of paradise. A perfect accompaniment to this work is the polychrome located on the opposite side of the presbytery:  Madonna and the Child and Caritas. The artist, in a visible way, juxtaposed two attitudes to life and showed their possible consequences.

Tags: Art Nouveau Stanisław Wyspiański polychrome bas-relief religion Young Poland 3D public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted famous people
Technique: sculpture polychrome
Material: gypsum
Ivory casket decorated with scenes from chanson de geste

The casket is cubical in shape and consist of six rectangular ivory plates bound together with metal nails and fittings. The top plate is fitted with hinges and serves as the lid. The front side is fitted with a rectangular lock decorated with an image of a tower and two persons: a woman with a large key in her hand and a man on his knees with his hands joined together. On the lid, there is a metal handle engraved in a diagonal checked pattern filled with simplified flowers. On the side plates, there are twelve figural scenes from medieval chance de geste, while on the lid, there are three court scenes. Narration in all of these images follows from the left to the right. The front side features the following images: Conversation of Alexander the Great with Aristotle, Phyllis and Aristotle, Thisbe and lion, Death of Pyramus and Thisbe, while the back side features: Lancelot fighting a lion, Lancelot crossing the Sword Bridge, Gauvain on the Dangerous Bed and Damsels freed by Gauvain. The left side features: Tristan and Iseult’s Meeting in the Garden, the Hunt of the Unicorn, while the right side features: Enyas’ fight with a savage and Old Porter Welcomes Galahad. The lead features a Knight Tournament in the centre, flanked by two scenes which together depict the motif of Siege of the Castle of Love.
The Kraków casket is one of seven so called complex caskets, which can be found in world’s most important collections of medieval art.

Tags: Wawel Cathedral Queen Jadwiga 3D plus sacred art bone bas-relief chest woman Middle Ages public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted famous people
Technique: engraving gilding enamel paint sculpture
Material: silver gold ivory enamel
Did you know that In Veit Stoss’s Gethsemane

The depiction of Christ in Gethsemane appeared three times in the works currently attributed to Veit Stoss. The theme itself is one of the scenes in the iconography of the Passion. It was widely used in the 2nd half of the 15th century in the art of South Germany. This event was described in the gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. Luke. Christ is shown praying in Gethsemane (the olive garden) at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, accompanied by three sleeping apostles: St. John, St. Peter, and St. James.

Tags: religion sculpture Christ saints Christianity bas-relief iconography Creative Commons licenses
Subjects: religion sculpted
Bas-relief “The Adoration of the Magi”

A sculpture which was probably the central part of a winged altarpiece at first. There is a sitting Madonna on the right, holding a naked Infant Jesus in her lap. She is facing three Magi; two of them are standing while the third one is kneeling and touching the Infant Jesus’s hand. St. Joseph is standing behind Mary.

Tags: Our Lady Catholicism gothic 2D sacred art Our Lady with Baby Jesus bas-relief public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted
Technique: gilding sculpture polychrome
Material: linden wood
A tombstone with the image of a “tree of life” from the double-apse rotunda – the so-called “church B” in Wawel

This tombstone consists of two elements and was found during excavation works carried out under the guidance of Stanisław Kozieł and Mieczysław Fraś in the area of the southern wing of building 5 of Wawel in the years 1966–75. The tombstone used to cover a tomb located in the area of the western apse of the double-apse rotunda relics, called “church B” by the researchers.

 

Tags: sacred art Wawel archeology grave bas-relief 3D plus romanesque art death WMM Plus public domain stela
Subjects: religion sculpted death
Technique: engraving forging
Material: Carpathian sandstone
Stele of the son of Chairemon and Isidora from Kom Abou Billou

The stele was purchased in Cairo at Eli Albert and Joseph Abermayor by soldiers of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade during WW II. The scene depicts a deceased man lying on a klinai and a female orant standing opposite. The man lying in the bed is dressed in a short-sleeved chiton and a himation rolled at the waist, wrapped around his left hand. In his right, outstretched hand he is holding a kantharos. The woman standing in front of him is depicted en face, she is dressed in the same way as the man and is raising her hands in a gesture of prayer. Under the scene an inscription is placed. The name of the deceased has been preserved only partially; perhaps it was Sosas. The name of his father was Chairemon; the name of Isidora is also there, popular in Egypt in the Roman period. The figures are bound together by family ties.

Tags: Roman Empire death Christianity Ancient Egypt religion bas-relief 3D necropolis 3D plus public domain stela
Subjects: religion sculpted death
Technique: engraving sculpture
Material: limestone
Relief “Agony in the Garden” by Veit Stoss from church of All Saints in Ptaszkowa

The relief with the scene of Christ’s Prayer in Gethsemane is dated from 1493–1495. It came to the church in Ptaszkowa (erected in 1555), presumably in the first half of the 19th century, where it was also discovered. It is considered to be the handiwork of Veit Stoss.
Today, this sculptor is considered to be the most famous Nuremberg-Kraków artist. He came from Horb am Neckar, situated in the then so-called Further Austria. Born in 1438, he died in 1533, at the age of 95. He created works in the late Gothic style, mainly around religious themes. In 1477, he resigned from Nuremberg citizenship and moved to Kraków – at that time, the capital of the Kingdom of Poland.

Tags: gothic Christ saints bas-relief sculpture sacred art iconography Middle Ages Bible Catholicism 3D plus public domain
Subjects: religion sculpted famous people surprising
Technique: sculpture polychrome
Material: linden wood paint mortar
Did you know that Modlitwa Chrystusa w Ogrójcu w realizacji Wita Stwosza
Tags: Kraków The Nowy Sacz District Museum religion sculpture Christ Easter Middle Ages bas-relief sacred art Creative Commons licenses Wit Stwosz
Subjects: religion painted sculpted
Blogs Entry Modlitwa Chrystusa w Ogrójcu w realizacji Wita Stwosza
Tags: Kraków Creative Commons licenses sacred art religion sculpture Christ Wit Stwosz The Nowy Sacz District Museum bas-relief Magdalena Łanuszka Bible
Subjects: religion sculpted death
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