Środkowoeuropejskie źródła architektury i dekoracji kościoła oraz klasztoru Dominikanów w Sandomierzu – nowe hipotezy badawcze
Central European Sources of the Architecture and Decoration of the Dominican Church and Monastery in Sandomierz. New Research Hypotheses

Summary/Abstract: The article presents new hypotheses concerning possible workshop links between the Dominican church and monastery in Sandomierz and buildings raised at the turn of the 12th century in Central Europe, especially in the Old March (today Jerichower Land in Saxony-Anhalt). The hypothesis, currently prevailing in specialist literature, that the construction workshop responsible for the erection of the church of St James had originated from Lombardy, is contested. In addition, hypotheses posed by Zofia Gołubiew in her monograph on the church, where she sought the origins of the solutions applied in Sandomierz in the territories of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, are subjected to a critical analysis. The text also draws attention to the 13th-century elements of the Sandomierz complex, which show similarities to edifices raised locally, in Lesser Poland and Silesia. In analysing the ceramic decorations of the nave and the eastern wing of the monastery, the author points to the tradition of producing ceramic floor tiles with a relief decoration, common towards the end of the 12th and in the 13th century in Central Europe, including, among others, the Dominican monastery in Cracow, where the production of the first tiles of this kind is dated to the early 1240s.

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