Opening of the coffin of St Casimir (The transfer of Casimir’s remains)
| Author: |
Antoni Oleszczyński (1794–1879) |
| Created: | 1849 |
| Material: | paper |
| Technique: | steel engraving |
| Dimensions: | 22.20 × 15.50 cm |
| Signature: | inscriptions: Album de Wilna 4.éme Série No. 5. // WYPROWADZENIE ZWŁOK SWIĘ: KAZIMIERŻA / PODŁUG OBRAZU PIOTRA DE RY DANKIERSA / znayduiącego się w Kaplicy Marmurowey So Kazimierza w Wilnie. / Dédiée á Madame la Maréchale Słotwinska née Giecewicz. / par l’Editeur J. K. Wilczyński. |
Chardon printing press
Based on the mural by Michelangelo Palloni in St Casimir’s Chapel in Vilnius Cathedral
Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński, Album de Wilna, series IV, fascicle I
Jan Kazimierz Sapieha, Hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and Kazimierz Pac, the Bishop of Žemaitija, commissioned the Italian painter Michelangelo Palloni (1642–ca 1713), who was living in Lithuania at the time, to paint murals for St Casimir’s Chapel in Vilnius Cathedral. In Wilczyński’s times, the authorship of the murals was mistakenly attributed to Pieter Danckers de Rij (1605–1661), an artist of Dutch origin who worked in Poland, and maybe in Lithuania too. This mistake was included on lithographs and engravings in the Album de Wilna, and was proven wrong only in the second half of the 20th century.
Text author Dalia Vasiliūnienė
Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album HEAVEN AND BEYOND (2016). Compiler Dalia Vasiliūnienė. Text authors Dalia Vasiliūnienė, Skaidrė Urbonienė
