Item Number: 148833 Title: Kameduli w Warszawie 1641-2016 : 375 lat fundacji eremu na Bielanach Author: Guttmejer, Karol ; Anna Sylwia Czyz (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9788363269302 Description: Warszawa : Miasto Stoleczne Warszawa, 2016. 25cm., pbk,. 620pp. prof. illus., numerous color plates. Conference papers. Texts in Polish, with English summaries. Summary: (from the Foreword) - The architecture of the Camaldolese Order is a phenomenon of creation within Baroque architecture in Poland. In the territory of seventeenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, six Camaldolese hermitages were built, and as many as four of these complesex are considered among the highest achievements in the history of Polish architecture. They are oustanding artistic masterpieces - Bielany near Cracow, Rytwiany, Bielany near Warsaw, and Pazaislis near Kaunas in Lithuania. Why did the order of Camaldolese hermits - with a very strict rule and almost cut off from the outside world, who were building very modest churches throughout Europe - create monumental, architecturally original and artistically rich churches in Poland? This publication is devoted to the artistic and historical values together with broadly understood heritage conservation problems - both of the hermitage near Warsaw, and other Polish Camaldolese complexes….
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