Notes on eighteenth-century furnishings of the collegiate church in Skalbmierz
Notes on eighteenth-century furnishings of the collegiate church in Skalbmierz

Summary/Abstract: Collegiate church of Saint John the Baptist in Skalbmierz has long inspired interest among scholars of antiquities, historians and art historians, researchers of medieval architecture in particular, even though the rich and artistically diverse furnishings of the church remained somewhat on the sidelines of these studies. The works of the eighteenth-century so-called small architecture in the collegiate church in Skalbmierz have not been analysed so far; furthermore, it is impossible to agree with some of the theses proposed in the literature. The issue of altars that had been moved from Skalbmierz to other temples was not discussed at all. Also, the Skalbmierz equipment has not been considered in the broader context of eighteenth-century small architecture and sculpture in the region of Lesser Poland. The article is based on archival materials, inventories and archival photographs from the Diocesan Archives in Kielce, as well as a thorough formal and stylistic analysis of the altars and their sculptural decoration (both figural and ornamental) within the Skalb-mierz collegiate church. The research facilitated identification and analysis of the altars originally placed in the collegiate church in Skalbmierz, and now located in the parish church in Bogucice. Dating of all the eighteenth-century equipment in Skalbmierz had been established, and authorship of the carving workshops of Antoni Frączkiewicz, Jerzy Hankis, Michał Dobkowski and Wojciech Rojowski operating in Kraków had been proposed.

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