Collection

Appearance of Christ to the Apostles

Szymon Czechowicz

Basic information

ID: Ж-6000
Author: Szymon Czechowicz
Name: Appearance of Christ to the Apostles
Date of creation: 1758
Country: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 134 x 188.5

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: religious painting
Plot: Appearance of Christ to the apostles
Provenance: Lviv Historical Museum
Exposition: Zhovkva Castle

Information about author

Author: Szymon Czechowicz
Artist's lifetime: 1689–1775
Biography: Szymon Czechowicz was born in an impoverished noble family in Krakow on July 28, 1689. He became an orphan at a young age. Thanks to the support of his patron and philanthropist Franciszek Ossolinski, the artist went to Rome, where he studied painting at the Academy of St. Luke under the guidance of Carlo Maratti. The first professional works of the artist were copies after famous painters, such as Rubens, Van Dyck and others; the artist drew upon their iconographic compositions. In 1765, at the invitation of Waclaw Rzewuski, he arrived at Pidhirtsi Castle in the Lviv region; by 1767, Czechowicz created 107 works that became part of the castle interior and a kind of the first museum of the artist. During the last period of his life, Szymon Czechowicz worked in Lithuania and Warsaw, where he opened his own art studio. The artist died on July 21, 1775. He was considered to be one of the best artists of the Baroque era in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Among the artist's creative legacy there are portraits and monumental paintings on sacred themes.

Object description

This is a multi-figure composition of 12 characters, in the center of which there is a figure of Christ dressed in white clothes, with his arms outstretched. The two apostles on the left are depicted kneeling. The apostle on the right is turned with his back to the viewer; he is dressed in red clothes. A shrub is at the feet of Christ. The mountain landscape serves as a background of the painting.

Appearance of Christ to the Apostles

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