Tarnowski Monument in the Tarnow Cathedral

Julian Zachariewicz

Basic information

ID: Г-I-406
Author: Julian Zachariewicz
Name: Tarnowski Monument in the Tarnow Cathedral
Date of creation: 1857
Country: Austrian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper watercolour
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 36 x 26.5

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: architectural landscape
Provenance: the Dzieduszycki collection

Information about author

Author: Julian Zachariewicz
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1898
Country: Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz (17 July 1837, Lviv – 27 December 1898, Lviv) was a prominent Galician architect of Armenian origin, founder of the Lviv School of Architecture, and in 1881–1882 professor and rector of the Lviv Polytechnic National University, then the Imperial Royal Higher Technical School in Lviv. He graduated from the Lviv Technical Academy (1852–1857) and received professional training in Vienna (1858). His designs were used in the construction of the main building of the Lviv Polytechnic, the Galician Savings Bank (now the Museum of Ethnography and Arts and Crafts), the artist's studio and residence of Jan Styka (now Oleksa Novakivskyi Art and Memorial Museum), the Franciscan Church and Monastery, a number of villas of cultural and artistic personalities in the Kastelivka district of Lviv, the Choral Synagogue in Chernivtsi, the railway station in Iasi (Romania), and others. Julian Zachariewicz was the father of the architect Alfred Zachariewicz.

Object description

The drawing shows a detailed reproduction of the monumental two-storey tomb of the Tarnowski family in the Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Tarnow, Poland. The tomb, in the style of a Greek church facade, for the crown hetman Jan Amor Tarnowski (1488–1561) and later his son Jan Krzysztof (1537–1567), was created between 1561 and 1574 by the Italian architect and sculptor Giovanni Maria Padovano (1493–1574). The red and white marble and alabaster tomb is characterised by rich iconography and is the tallest Renaissance tombstone in Poland (13.8 m). In the central rectangular niches are the figures of the deceased (the upper one is the father, and the lower one is the son) in a sleeping position. The side bas-reliefs are dedicated to scenes of battles in which the hetman took part. The monument is crowned by a complex attic with a sculpture of Christ. From 1890 to 1899, the Tarnow Cathedral was rebuilt in a neo-Gothic style, according to Julian Zachariewicz's project.

Inscriptions

The author's signature and date are on the right below the image: "Julian 1857". Below is the author's pencil inscription: "Pomnik h. Tarnowskich".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery