Guild Art, Gothic House, Nowy Sącz

Presenting guild art from the 14th to the 19th century, the exhibition on the ground floor of the building occupies two rooms arranged in a single file. It contains paintings, sculpture, church paraments, prayer books and embroidered images. The oldest exhibits come from the Gothic period. These are wooden figures of Saints from Iwkowa and a fragment of the right wing of the triptych painted on both sides with the figures of Bishop Erhard and St. Clare, discovered during ethnographic research in a peasant house in Mszalnica. Another exhibit worthy of attention is an altar retable from about 1500, found in Stary Sącz, with richly decorated, gilded side walls presenting full-scale painted figures of St. Francis and St. John the Evangelist. Other interesting objects include a painting from the guild of bakers presenting the Eye of Providence painted on a wooden board that likely dates to the 17th century, and  the Pietà of Our Lord, also from the 17th century, with an extremely interesting and rare iconographic motif. The painting shows God the Father holding Christ’s body on His lap, with a small image of the person who ordered the painting at their foot. The 18th century is illustrated by a very interesting Memento Mori painting, an example of the vanitas motif characteristic for the art of Baroque. The painting is divided into three parts. In the bottom part, the artist has placed some symbols of death and of the transience of human life while the top part consists of depictions of the original sin that resulted in the banishment from Paradise, and of the Crucifixion, i.e., Christ’s sacrifice to redeem the sins of humanity. Visitors can also see the monumental late-Baroque group of sculptures from an altar in Kamianna that presents God the Father, Christ, Mother of God and St. John. A different painting technique can be seen in the Adoration of the Three Magi dating from the 17th and18th centuries. It presents the Holy Family and the three Wise Men from the East against a landscape background.


 
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