Sigismund's Chapel

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Sigismund's Chapel (1519–1533)

Sigismund's Chapel (Polish: kaplica Zygmuntowska) is a royal chapel of the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland. Built as a funerary chapel for the last members of the Jagiellonian Dynasty, it has been hailed by many art historians as "the most beautiful example of the Tuscan Renaissance north of the Alps".^[1]^[2] Financed by King Sigismund I the Old, it was built in 1519–33 by Italian architect Bartolomeo Berrecci.

A square-based chapel with a golden dome houses the tombs of its founder King Sigismund, as well as King Sigismund II Augustus and Anna Jagiellon. The inner sculptures, stuccos and paintings were designed by some of the most renowned artists of the age, including the architect Berrecci himself, Georg Pencz, Santi Gucci and Hermann Vischer.

References

Back to citation Nimmrichter, Johann; Kautek, Wolfgang; Schreiner, Manfred (2007). LACONA 6 proceedings. p. 125. ISBN 978-3-540-72129-1.
Back to citation Rouček, Joseph Slabey (1949). Slavonic encyclopaedia. Philosophical Library. p. 24. “The much admired Sigismund Chapel, called 'the pearl of the Renaissance north of the Alps' by foreign scholars.”

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[1] Back to citation Nimmrichter, Johann; Kautek, Wolfgang; Schreiner, Manfred (2007). LACONA 6 proceedings. p. 125. ISBN 978-3-540-72129-1.

[2] Back to citation Rouček, Joseph Slabey (1949). Slavonic encyclopaedia. Philosophical Library. p. 24. “The much admired Sigismund Chapel, called 'the pearl of the Renaissance north of the Alps' by foreign scholars.”

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