Wistycze – z historii kultury cysterskiej w Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim
Wistycze – Cistercian artistic culture in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Summary/Abstract: The text regards an artistic culture of a Cistercian abbey in Wistycze. It discusses the history of the abbey including its fate after suppression by the Orthodox Church in 1831 and attempts of revendication in the mid-war period. The author dates the design of the church to ca. 1679–1697 linking it to the Warsaw artistic milieu, possibly Isidore Affaitati or Jan Chrzciciel [Giovanni Battista] Ceroni, while its façade of 1748 has been attributed to Józef Fontana (III). Analysis of the previously unknown photographs from before 1939 which represent i.a. the rococo high altar from about the middle of the 18th c. allows to illustrate its relationship to art objects from regions of Lublin and Podlasie, assigned to the workshop of Johann Elias Hoffman from Puławy. A miraculous image of Mother Mary, an icon from the turn of the 15th and 16th c., was probably commissioned by Jan Juriewicz Zabrzeziński, the founder of the earliest church at Wistycze, at a workshop in Belorussia or Novgorod.

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