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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 rzeźbie nagrobnej Bartolomea Berrecciego. Kraków: TAiWPN Universitas, 2022.

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Author:   Marcin Fabiański
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   82
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004724921

ISBN 10:   9004724923
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   17 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   Polish

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 5 Bartolomeo Berrecci’s Sleeping Figures and their Artistic Provenance  1 How Berrecci Conceived the Monument to Ludwik Mikołaj Szydłowiecki  2 Inventing King Sigismund’s Sepulchral Statue  3 Bishop Piotr Tomicki’s Effigy and Italian Art  4 Barbara Tarnowska née Tęczyńska: Tomicki’s Female Counterpart 6 The Expectations of Berrecci’s Patrons  1 Why Krzysztof Szydłowiecki 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 Mikołaj Szydłowiecki  1 Zygmunt Szydłowiecki’s Bronze Relief  2 Szydłowiecki’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

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Marcin Fabiański 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).

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