Sleep in Renaissance Poland
Bartolomeo Berrecci’s Tomb Sculpture and Its Legacy in East Central Europe
Series: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History; 82;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 17 October 2025
- ISBN 9789004724921
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This book discusses reclining sepulchral statues by Bartolomeo Berrecci in Poland, based on recent inventions by Andrea Sansovino. It offers an insight into the commissioning, design, reception, and interpretation of the works, including their legacy until the 18th century.
MoreLong description:
Focusing on the Italian architect and sculptor Bartolomeo Berrecci, this monograph examines an important subset of his sepulchral works—recumbent statuary—and offers insights into their patronage, reception, and interpretation. Berrecci’s exploration of this sculptural type predates its eventual spread beyond Italy, Spain, and Poland. Indeed, he proved so successful that well over two hundred statues can still be found in present-day Poland and Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Sweden. Although he mainly produced them for Catholic clients, examples of such monuments also exist in Lutheran, Calvinist, and Orthodox settings. The volume draws on a vast array of primary sources, visual, textual, and archival, and compares Berrecci’s workshop to the Tuscan Quattrocento workshops of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, Perugino, and others.
Originally published in Polish as Sen w rzeźbie nagrobnej Bartolomea Berrecciego. Kraków: TAiWPN Universitas, 2022.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
5 Bartolomeo Berrecci’s Sleeping Figures and their Artistic Provenance
1 How Berrecci Conceived the Monument to Ludwik Mikołaj Szydłowiecki
2 Inventing King Sigismund’s Sepulchral Statue
3 Bishop Piotr Tomicki’s Effigy and Italian Art
4 Barbara Tarnowska née Tęczyńska: Tomicki’s Female Counterpart
6 The Expectations of Berrecci’s Patrons
1 Why Krzysztof Szydłowiecki Commissioned the Tomb of His Son
2 King Sigismund and His Sepulchral Monument
3 Bishop Piotr Tomicki Orders His Tomb
4 Hetman Tarnowski Commemorates His Wife Barbara
7 Independent Child Monuments after Ludwik Mikołaj Szydłowiecki
1 Zygmunt Szydłowiecki’s Bronze Relief
2 Szydłowiecki’s Associates and Child Tombs
3 Later Child Monuments
8 The Reception of Berrecci’s Reclining Adults
1 Knights in Armor
2 Figures in Civilian Clothes
Epilogue: the Place of Berrecci’s Dreaming Figures in European and Old Polish Culture
Appendices
Catalog
Works Cited
Index
