O dwóch funeralnych fundacjach Michała Kazimierza Radziwiłła „Rybeńki”
On Two Funerary Foundations of Michael Casimir Rybeńko’ Radziwiłł

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the artistic setting of funerary ceremonies mounted by Michael Casimir ‘Rybeńko’ Radziwiłł as exequies of James Louis Sobieski (son of John III) in Żółkiew in 1743 and the funeral of Anna Katarzyna Radziwiłł née Sanguszko held in Nieśwież in 1747. The decorations of both ceremonies, ranked among the most sumptuous in the 18th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, have not as yet been thoroughly discussed in the literature on the topic, despite standing out as examples of the architectural castrum doloris, a rare type in Poland. Both catafalques designed by Antonio Castelli and Maurizio Pedetti respectively, referring to the form of the Roman Baroque tempietto, remain genuine and important examples of late Baroque European funerary art.

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