Kasper Bazanka
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Polish |
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1680 |
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January 21, 1726 |
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| In 1704 he was awarded first prize by the Accademia di S Luca, Rome, for his design of a public building. The first reference to his work in Poland is dated 1711, when he began work on the church of the Norbertines (completed 1720) at Imbramowice, near Krakow. In June 1711 he stayed at Bialystok, probably at the behest of the Polish royal hetman Jan Klemens Branicki, and in 1713 he worked in Warsaw for Elzbieta Sieniawska of the Lubomirski family. Bazanka subsequently built the parish church in Mlodzawy (1716-20), near Kielce. From 1715 to 1726 he was also at work in the Jesuit church of St. Peter and Paul on Grodzka Street, Krakow, where he designed, among other features, the tombs of the Brzechff and Branicki families, the main altar, the choir and the railing in front of the church facade. Much of his work was thereafter concentrated in or around Krakow. In 1718-27 he built the church of the Piarists on Pijarska Street, Krakow (with the exception of the facade), but his most notable work was the missionary church (1719-28) in the suburb of Stradom. Here Bazankas recourse to the vocabulary of the Roman High Baroque, if not to its command of proportion, is at its most noticeable and eclectic. The church interior shows the influence of Francesco Borromini, particularly of his chapel of the Re Magi in the Collegio de Propaganda Fide in Rome, while the facade is inspired by that of Gianlorenzo Berninis S Andrea al Quirinale, also in Rome. Bazanka was responsible for the church of the Carmelites (1719-33) in the Wesola suburb of Krakow and designed the decorations, including the castrum doloris, for the funeral of Katarzyna Branicka, held on May 11, 1720 in the church of St. Peter and Paul. Bazanka was an outstanding architect who introduced the late Roman Baroque style into Poland. In his treatment of church interiors he became highly skilled at obtaining maximum effects from the play of light and shadow, and his altar architecture, with its use of optical illusion, is particularly elaborate. |
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