Sonet siostrzany. „Kinga i Johelet” Kazimiery Zawistowskiej a „Błogosławiona Salomea” Stanisława Wyspiańskiego
A Sisterly Sonnet: Kazimiera Zawistowska’s "Kinga i Johelet" and Stanisław Wyspiański’s "Błogosławiona Salomea"

Summary/Abstract: Kazimiera Zawistowska’s lirycal poem "Kinga i Johelet" contributes to a current described as ‘Young Poland’s Middle Ages’ [średniowiecze młodopolskie]. As its interpretation evolves, it becomes apparent that apart from describing the lives of the blessed Franciscan nuns, the poem forms a symbolic commentary to the iconographical programme of the Franciscan Church in Krakow – the stained glass windows designed by Stanisław Wyspiański. The sonnet on the saint Clarisse nuns is a sort of compensation for the rejection of a part of the artist’s design, complementing, with use of poetic means, the window effigy of the blessed Salomea. Moreover, creating a ‘portrait’ inspired by the stained glass pane, Zawistowska follows the same road as e.g. Gustave Flaubert ("The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller") or Walter Pater ("Denys L’Auxerrois"): constructing their stories, they ‘animated’ the stories from the Gothic windows.

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