Galeria arcybiskupów gnieźnieńskich na zamku w Uniejowie

Abstract

Decorating the main representative rooms in Polish modern mansions with the series of family portraits or major secular and ecclesial dignitaries became popular during the 16th century. We have information about the series of those portraits from the archival transfers, only very few have survived, most of them are remains of the single items of the numerous sets. In the first half of the 17th century those kinds of portraits were decorating archbishops’ residences in Łowicz and Łyszkowice. The article tells about the recovered archive document that informs about existence, before 1655 in the main room of archbishops’ castle in Uniejów, of a series of 58 likenesses of hierarchs from the end of the 10th century until 1655. That castle belonged to hierarchs’ demesne from the 12th to the beginning of the 19th century, in the 16th and the 17th century, after extension it became a palace. tłum. Julia Niewiarowska-Kulesza