@article{Ryba_2018, title={Interpretacja jako inspiracja? Dekoracja drzwi do kruchty katedry poznańskiej}, url={https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/aq/article/view/14592}, DOI={10.14746/aq.2015.26.8}, abstractNote={<p>In the southern porch of the Poznań cathedral there is a swinging door etched in</p><p>bronze and brass, made in 1972. Together with a bronze bas-relief placed above, it</p><p>was the most important element of the decoration of the passage from the residence</p><p>of Poznań archbishops to the cathedral. Both artworks were made by Ireneusz Daczko</p><p>and Bogdan Fijałkowski – graduates of the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts. Their</p><p>project was inspired by Rev. Stefan Tomaszkiewicz, who supervised construction</p><p>work in the cathedral, and Rev. Bolesław Dzierwa, involved in the restoration of the</p><p>cathedral in Gniezno. Both priests developed an original iconographic program of </p><p>the porch decoration, based upon angelistic, christological, and mariological symbolism</p><p>and texts in Polish, Latin, and Greek.</p><p>The figures of archangels Gabriel and Michael in the door panels have a border</p><p>with inscriptions, monograms, angels, and zoomorphic motifs, and objects intertwined</p><p>with climbing plants. The decoration of the door and the bas relief showing</p><p>the Assumption of Mary includes many references to the liturgy of the breviary,</p><p>and points to the clergy as the recipients of the ideas represented in the porch iconography.</p><p>The main argument of the paper is that the iconography of the Poznań door derives</p><p>from the texts by Lech Kalinowski and, above all, Zdzisław Kępiński, who in his</p><p>article, “The Symbolism of the Gniezno Door,” was the first to emphasize the significance</p><p>of the border and the connection of its decoration with the correspondent figural</p><p>panels of the bronze Gniezno door.</p>}, number={26}, journal={Artium Quaestiones}, author={Ryba, Grażyna}, year={2018}, month={wrz.}, pages={171–193} }