The Renaissance monument to Barbara of Rożnowo (d. 1517), granddaughter of Zawisza Czarny and mother of Jan Hetman Tarnowski, dates to around 1520 and refers to Florentine wall-mounted monuments with a niche. The architectural details and ornamentation show the lack of the maker’s understanding of the genesis and function of such a monument. The figure of the deceased is just a Gothic figure of the Mother of God under the cross and pilasters; their heads and entablature do not refer to any particular style. The monument is made of sandstone but the working technique suggests that the author was a wood-carver rather than a stonemason. The monument is decorated with the two coats of arms of the deceased, after her paternal and her maternal lines: Sulima and Starykoń. The author of the monument is unknown.
Barbara Tarnowska, née Tęczyńska, Tarnów Cathedral
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