St. Hyacinth's Church, Warsaw

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St. Hyacinth's Church
Kościół św. Jacka (in Polish)
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General information
Architectural styleBaroque
Town or cityWarsaw
CountryPoland
Construction started1603
Completed1639
Demolished1944
ClientDominican Order
Design and construction
Architect(s)Giovanni Battista Trevano

St. Hyacinth's Church (

Warsaw's New Town
at Freta Street 8/10.

History

St. Hyacinth's Church was founded by the Dominican Order and adjoins Warsaw's largest monastery. The church is a mixture of Renaissance and early-Baroque styles. Its construction began in 1603 and it was completed in 1639.[1]

During the construction and shortly afterwards the church was encompassed with ornate chapels. In 1627 Jadwiga Mińska established the Holy Cross Chapel, the so-called Dark Chapel, and in 1651 the Royal Musicians founded the Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows.[1]

When Warsaw was captured by Swedish and

pantler Adam Kotowski established the most important church feature - the St. Dominic Chapel.[1] The ornate baroque building was constructed according to the design by prominent Warsaw architect Tylman Gamerski.[1]

The 18th century was the age of the church's greatest prosperity.[1] The monastery's library possessed the richest collection of volumes in Poland. Unfortunately it was later completely destroyed.[1]

During

bombings by the Germans.[1] During the bombardments over a thousand civilians and insurgents were killed.[1]

Interior

Interior of St. Hyacinth's Church

The facade is baroque, although the interior is completely modern, because very few of the original furnishings of the church were preserved. Among them, the most interesting are the tomb monuments - the mannerist tomb of Katarzyna Ossolińska, constructed in 1607 (it was only partially reconstructed); the tomb of Anna Tarnowska, carved from brown Chęciny marble in about 1616, which depicts Anna in the typical Polish sepulchral art sleeping pose; the black marble epitaph of Regina Sroczyńska, a wealthy merchant from Kraków, originally adorned with a coffin portrait of Regina painted on tin plate.[1] Next to the sanctuary there is a chapel for St. Dominic with the most valuable element of the church's furnishing - an 18th-century wooden statue of Ecce Homo by Antoni Osiński, with profuse stucco decorations, a black marble altar and a portal.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m (in English) Paweł Giergoń. "Kościół św. Jacka". www.sztuka.net. Retrieved 2010-01-26.

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