Tombstone of the Pieńczykowski (?) family

Medwedowce | Ukraine
ukr. Medwediwci (Медведівці)

Cemetery in Medvedovce

ID: NGR-002603-P

Tombstone of the Pieńczykowski (?) family

Medwedowce | Ukraine
ukr. Medwediwci (Медведівці)

A figure of a mourner with an urn on a high pedestal is set on a high mound covering the tomb. The mourner stands in a contrapposto, with his legs crossed (right foot lost). With his right hand, leaning against the plinth with the urn to his right, he covers his cheek. Left hand bent at the elbow and leaning in front against the plinth. Mourner girded at hip level with robe falling from right shoulder. Urn partially lost, resembling a kyatos. Decorated with bas-relief leaves. Through the plinth a kir and chain are hung. On the four sides of the plinth, panels with corners filled with quarter palmettoes and convex carved shackles.

Time of origin:

1800-1820

Emplacement de la pierre tombale:

Numéro de la tombe 13

Dimensions:

200 x 100 x 100 cm

Additional dimensions:

mound - approx. 500

Materials:

sandstone

Additional information:

The dating is indicated by the form of the tomb's finial analogous to that of the tombstone of Antonina Raciborowska (d. 1808) from the church in Milatyń Nowy and by the foundation activity of Stanisław Pieńczykowski circa 1808, then owner of the Medvedowce estate. See Czyż 2010, pp. 87-88

State of preservation:

cavities

Bibliography:

Karta dokumentacyjna obiektu zabytkowego poza granicami kraju, powiat buczacki, zbiór przechowywany w Ministerstwie Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego, Warszawa..
„Cmentarze dawnego powiatu buczackiego”, pod redakcją Anny Sylwii Czyż Bartłomieja Gutowskiego, Warszawa 2017, 387.

Keywords:

urn, figure

Date of documentation:

2006

Author of the documentation sheet:

Karolina Lenarczyk

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, dr hab. Anna Sylwia Czyż, prof. ucz.

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