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- Title
ŠVČ. MERGELĖS MARIJOS PAVEIKSLAS IŠ KAUNO ŠV . JURGIO KANKINIO BERNARDINŲ BAŽNYČIOS.
- Authors
Šinkūnaitė, Laima
- Abstract
The aim of this article is to present a little known and rather interesting painting of the Holy Mother of God from the Bernardine Church of St George the Martyr. This article also discusses the circumstances of the discovery and identification of the Blessed Virgin Mary's painting. Earlier studies are surveyed and the story of this painting is evoked. The technological investigations into painting and its resultant restoration are also analyzed. After concluding the attribution of the work, this article delves into the question of the cult and miraculous nature of the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the problems of the origins of this painting. The material presented in this article allows us to draw some conclusions. Firstly, the identity of the painting under investigation is established. Secondly, the general facts surrounding the history of this painting, technological research, restoration and the analysis of the elements and stylistic peculiarities of the painting enable us to date the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the end of the 16th century. Furthermore, the connections presented between the painting of the Kaunas Bernardine and the copies of the icon of the Holy Mother of God of Czestochowa (painted between the end of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century) allow us to determine the dependence of this painting upon the aforementioned group of imitations of the holy icon. On the other hand, these connections indirectly establish and correct the date of its creation to the early 17th century. However, the question regarding the sequence that the imitations of the aforementioned Holy Mother of God of Czestochowa were created, i.e. which image of the Blessed Virgin Mary should be considered as a prototype for the rest, remains without a clear answer. The cult that developed as a consequence of the miraculous nature of the Holy Mother of God's painting of the Kaunas Bernardine, (which remained in the same church for 350 years), reveals the depth afforded to the devotion of the Holy Virgin and is a representative example of the variety of forms of devotion, especially those characteristic to the second half of the 17th century and 18th century. In all probability, the painting of the Troškunai Mother of God of the Rosary marked the beginning of the spread of the cult of the Blessed Virgin Mary's image. The painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Kaunas Bernardine is a distinctive and original work conceived within the frame of the canon of the Byzantine Hodegetria composition. As an image it is interesting not only within the Lithuanian, but also the Polish context of Marian iconographical images. This painting will be used in the article's analysis of the impact of the Holy Mother of God of Czestochowa and its reflections in the Marian art of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Kaunas Bernardine painting of the Holy Mother of God might be considered as the earliest imitation of the Holy Mother of God of Czestochowa in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
- Subjects
LUXEMBOURG; KAUNAS (Lithuania); LITHUANIA; MARY, Blessed Virgin, Saint; ICON painting; HISTORY of painting; CHRISTIAN saints in art; 16TH century painting; SYMBOLISM in art
- Publication
Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, 2008, Issue 51, p59
- ISSN
1392-0316
- Publication type
Article