Published : 2026-06-19

The Painting of the Last Judgment in the Chapel of the Holy Cross, Founded by Janusz Tyszkiewicz – Iconographic Models

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Between 1654 and 1658, Tomasz Muszyński (died before 1680), a representative of Polish Baroque painting, worked for the Dominican Order in Lublin. In the Chapel of the Holy Cross, founded by Janusz Tyszkiewicz, he painted a fresco in the dome depicting the Last Judgment, i.e. Christ’s judgment over humanity. This painting is part of an ideological programme related to the Passion of the Christ and the Redemption, created within the Dominican circle. The subject of the painting is also connected to the song for the deceased, a fragment of which is recorded in the open book held by angels. While creating the painting, the artist compiled various graphic models, simultaneously introducing his own interpretations. He drew on graphic sources including Giovanni Battista Fontana’s Last Judgment (1587), Pieter de Jode I’s 1617 copperplate, based on Jean Cousin the Younger’s Last Judgment (1615), and prints from Jacobo Bosio’s work.

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Dominican Chapel of the Holy Cross Lublin, fresco of the Last Judgment, Tomasz Muszyński, Jacobo Bosio, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Jean Cousin the Younger, Pieter de Jode I



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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