Późnogotyckie krucyfiksy tęczowe z Turku, Kazimierza Biskupiego i Graboszewa .......... 493

LATE GOTHIC ROOD-BEAM CRUCIFIXES FROM TUREK, KAZIMIERZ BISKUPI AND GRABOSZEWO

The article discusses the importance of rood-beam crucifixes in the chronological dating of churches as well as their role as a manifestation of the church benefactors’ pride. The roods would be mounted above the chancel entrance on special occasions commemorating the completion or architectural modernisation of the temple. Such ceremonies presented the perfect opportunity to immortalise the people involved in these enterprises with an inscription. This practice is attested by artefacts and textual sources. It is no wonder then that crucifixes from Turek, Kazimierz Biskupi and Graboszewo display a high level of artistic finesse. The first of them bears a similarity to the crucifix founded by Henryk Slacker, created in Cracow by Veit Stoss before 1496. The Turek crucifix might possibly be a donation of Fryderyk Jagiellończyk’s from around 1500. He was the archbishop of Gniezno and a collator of the church. The Kazimierz Biskupi crucifix used to adorn a church completed in 1521 at the initiative of Mikołaj Lubrański, the Voivode of Poznań. The latter – from Graboszewo – was made in the same workshop and around that time, i.e. 1522.