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Monument to Prince Ostrogski in the Tarnow Cathedral

Julian Zachariewicz

Basic information

ID: Г-I-407
Author: Julian Zachariewicz
Name: Monument to Prince Ostrogski in the Tarnow Cathedral
Date of creation: 1857
Country: Austrian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper watercolour
Dimensions: 37.5 x 29 cm (height x width)

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Type: graphic art
Genre: architectural landscape
Provenance: the Dzieduszycki collection

Information about author

Author: Julian Zachariewicz
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1898
Country: Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz (17 July 1837, Lviv – 27 December 1898, Lviv) was a prominent Galician architect of Armenian origin, founder of the Lviv School of Architecture, and in 1881–1882 professor and rector of the Lviv Polytechnic National University, then the Imperial Royal Higher Technical School in Lviv. He graduated from the Lviv Technical Academy (1852–1857) and received professional training in Vienna (1858). His designs were used in the construction of the main building of the Lviv Polytechnic, the Galician Savings Bank (now the Museum of Ethnography and Arts and Crafts), the artist's studio and residence of Jan Styka (now Oleksa Novakivskyi Art and Memorial Museum), the Franciscan Church and Monastery, a number of villas of cultural and artistic personalities in the Kastelivka district of Lviv, the Choral Synagogue in Chernivtsi, the railway station in Iasi (Romania), and others. Julian Zachariewicz was the father of the architect Alfred Zachariewicz.

Object description

The work is a detailed reproduction of the monumental tombstone of the Ostrogski family in the Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Tarnow. The tombstone of Prince Janusz Ostrogski (1554–1620) and his first wife Zuzanna Seredi was created between 1612 and 1620 by the German school sculptor Johann Pfister (1573–1642) in the Mannerist and early Baroque style. The red and black marble and yellow alabaster tombstone is rich in iconography. In the central niche, near the Crucifix, are the bowing figures of Janusz Ostrogski and his wife Zuzanna. From 1890 to 1899, the neo-Gothic Tarnow Cathedral was rebuilt by Julian Zachariewicz.

Inscriptions

At the bottom right of the image is the author's signature and date: "Julian 1857". Below the image is an inscription in pencil: "Pomnik J. Ostrowskiego".

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