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Sleep in Renaissance Poland
Bartolomeo Berrecciâs Tomb Sculpture and Its Legacy in East Central Europe
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Focusing on the Italian architect and sculptor Bartolomeo Berrecci, this monograph examines an important subset of his sepulchral worksârecumbent statuaryâand offers insights into their patronage, reception, and interpretation. Berrecciâs 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 Berrecciâs workshop to the Tuscan Quattrocento workshops of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, Perugino, and others.
Originally published in Polish as Sen w rzeźbie nagrobnej Bartolomea Berrecciego. Kraków: TAiWPN Universitas, 2022.
Originally published in Polish as Sen w rzeźbie nagrobnej Bartolomea Berrecciego. Kraków: TAiWPN Universitas, 2022.
Marcin FabiaÅski 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 âWinged: Putti in Renaissance Artâ (National Museum in Kraków: 2024).
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
5 Bartolomeo Berrecciâs Sleeping Figures and their Artistic Provenance
â1âHow Berrecci Conceived the Monument to Ludwik MikoÅaj SzydÅowiecki
â2âInventing King Sigismundâs Sepulchral Statue
â3âBishop Piotr Tomickiâs Effigy and Italian Art
â4âBarbara Tarnowska née TÄczyÅska: Tomickiâs Female Counterpart
6 The Expectations of Berrecciâs Patrons
â1âWhy Krzysztof SzydÅowiecki Commissioned the Tomb of His Son
â2âKing Sigismund and His Sepulchral Monument
â3âBishop Piotr Tomicki Orders His Tomb
â4âHetman Tarnowski Commemorates His Wife Barbara
7 Independent Child Monuments after Ludwik MikoÅaj SzydÅowiecki
â1âZygmunt SzydÅowieckiâs Bronze Relief
â2âSzydÅowieckiâs Associates and Child Tombs
â3âLater Child Monuments
8 The Reception of Berrecciâs Reclining Adults
â1âKnights in Armor
â2âFigures in Civilian Clothes
Epilogue: the Place of Berrecciâs Dreaming Figures in European and Old Polish Culture
Appendices
Catalog
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
5 Bartolomeo Berrecciâs Sleeping Figures and their Artistic Provenance
â1âHow Berrecci Conceived the Monument to Ludwik MikoÅaj SzydÅowiecki
â2âInventing King Sigismundâs Sepulchral Statue
â3âBishop Piotr Tomickiâs Effigy and Italian Art
â4âBarbara Tarnowska née TÄczyÅska: Tomickiâs Female Counterpart
6 The Expectations of Berrecciâs Patrons
â1âWhy Krzysztof SzydÅowiecki Commissioned the Tomb of His Son
â2âKing Sigismund and His Sepulchral Monument
â3âBishop Piotr Tomicki Orders His Tomb
â4âHetman Tarnowski Commemorates His Wife Barbara
7 Independent Child Monuments after Ludwik MikoÅaj SzydÅowiecki
â1âZygmunt SzydÅowieckiâs Bronze Relief
â2âSzydÅowieckiâs Associates and Child Tombs
â3âLater Child Monuments
8 The Reception of Berrecciâs Reclining Adults
â1âKnights in Armor
â2âFigures in Civilian Clothes
Epilogue: the Place of Berrecciâs Dreaming Figures in European and Old Polish Culture
Appendices
Catalog
Works Cited
Index
The book is of interest to art and cultural historians, academic institutes and libraries, specialists, graduate and post-graduate students, or anyone interested in the reclining sepulchral statues of Berrecci.