Epitaph of Stanisław Szembek
- Subject
- Epitafium
- Contributor
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- Style
- -
- Date
- Po 1638 r.
- Type
- Przyścienna forma architektoniczna
- Material and technique
- Czarny marmur, alabaster
- Size
- 2,7 x 1,80 m
- Signatures and inscriptions
- STANISLAVS SZEMBEK1 S(ACRAE) R(EGIAE) M(AIESTATIS) SECRETARIVS. | VIR PRVDENTIA ET CONSILIO GRAVIS CVM RELIGIONE DEVM, FIDELITATE REGE(M), AMICOS OFFICIO, | PAVPERES LIBERALITATE, OMNES COMITATE DEMERERETVR. | SALINARV(M) WIELICIEN(SIVM) ADMINISTRATOR NON SIBI SED REGNO, ET REGIAE MAIESTATI, LABORE(M), VIGILANTIA(M), VITA(M), IMPENDENS | PENE- SQ(VE) · ILLV(M) THESAVRV(M), FIDE(M) PVBLICA(M) POTIORE(M) QVA(M) PRIVATV(M) | CENSVM EXISTIMANS: | MORTALITATIS SVAE MEMORI CAPELLAM ISTAM B(EATE) M(ARIAE) V(IRGINIS) LORETVM SVMPTVOSE EXORNARI, ET HIC CONDI VOLVIT: VT ETIAM HVMATVS, | PATRONAM SVAM SVSPIRARET | HOSPES | AD SVPREMVM TRIBVNAL COMPARENTEM, | AETERNA VT EXCIPIAT SECVRITAS | APPRECARE. CONSORS IPSIVS ANNA DE DOMO AMENDORVM, | HOC LVCTVOSVM FIDEI CONIVGALIS, FIERI FECIT MONVMENTVM. | VIXIT ANNIS LIV. MORTVVS XXVI. APRILIS | A(NNO) D(OMINI) MDCXXXVIII.
- Identity number
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- Department
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- Links/analogies
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- Owner
- Bazylika Mariacka w Krakowie
- Copyright
- Bazylika Mariacka w Krakowie
- Location
- Kaplica Loretańska
- Description
- The epitaph of Stanisław Szembek (d. 1638), royal secretary and administrator of the Great Salt Mine, was funded by his wife Anna of the Amadeus family. The finial features a brass cross and below it scenes depicting the adoration of the Virgin and Child by the deceased spouses, a plaque with an inscription and a cartouche with a fragmentarily preserved h. Szembek.
