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Vol. 96 (2001): Our Past

Articles

What can a sculpture have in common with a painting? Miraculous images of Marian sanctuaries in Zamarte and Byszewo

  • Lech Lbik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52204/np.2001.96.551-566  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2001-12-30

Abstract

The Pomeranian Marian Sanctuary in the village of Zamarte near Chojnice dates back to the beginning of the 15th century. In the first half of the 17th century, the pilgrimage cult centered around a wooden statue of Our Lady on a throne with a scepter in her left hand and Baby Jesus on her right shoulder. This small figure in the Mannerist style, stolen in 1983, was created at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries and was a cult representation, most likely a personal souvenir of a pilgrimage to a Marian sanctuary - perhaps near Byszew, the village of Zamarte, where in the mid-13th century In the 18th century, a Cistercian monastery settled and, after several dozen years, it was moved to Koronowo. There was a parish in Byszewo, and in the local parish church - at least since ancient times - a local sanctuary since the 16th century, visited by many pilgrims on Marian feasts. Since the mid-17th century, a Mannerist-Baroque image of the Virgin Mary and Child has been preserved there as an object of worship, with which a small figurine from Zamarte was iconographically associated. It acquired its current shape around 1645 - as a result of extensive painting over of the original late Gothic composition from the end of the 15th or 16th century. The history of the painting (before 1622 it was taken to the monastery in Koronowo, where it was painted privately by individual monks, was venerated and remained for a short time in the Cistercian monastery in Obra in 1645) suggests that it was a replica of an older cult painting, probably a sculpture. The old altar statues of the Gothic church in Byszew were destroyed by fire in the first quarter of the 17th century. It is impossible to determine the origin and style of the first lost statue of the Virgin Mary from the 15th century; However, the alleged copy from Zamarte had Romanesque connections.

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