Fragment of Basilica of Saint-Denis

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-409
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Fragment of Basilica of Saint-Denis
Date of creation: 1890
Technique: drawing
Material: tracing paper on cardboard Indian ink pen
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 19.5 x 28.5

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: architecture painting
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Artist's lifetime: 1869–1907
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Stanislaw Wyspianski was born in 1869 in Krakow. He studied at the Jagiellonian University and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was a member of the Young Poland movement, and art editor of the weekly Życie (Life). Stanislaw Wyspianski is known as a playwright and poet, modernist painter, and designer. The artist died in November 1907. He was buried in Krakow.

Object description

The picture represents a fragment of a Roman Catholic Church, in the foreground of which there are circular-shaped towers. On the left there are Gothic spires and stained glass elements. There are no landscape scenes in the work.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Fragment of Basilica of Saint-Denis

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