Nauji architektūros istorijos šaltiniai : architektas Juozapas Fontana

LTStraipsnio tikslas – pristatyti naują LDK architektūros istorijos šaltinį – Vitebsko bernardinų Šv. Antano bažnyčios statybos sutarties aktikaciją. Straipsnyje atskleidžiamos šio užsakymo istorinės aplinkybės ir reikšmė architekto Juozapo Fontanos profesinėje karjeroje. Skelbiami architekto gyvenimo ir kūrybos duomenys padeda įvertinti jo įnašą į LDK vėlyvojo baroko architektūros evoliuciją ir savitumą. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Juozapas Fontana; Teklė Ona Oginskienė; Marcijonas Mykolas Oginskis; Bernardinai; Architektūros užsakymai; Giuseppe Fontana; Tekla Anna Ogińska; Marcjan Michał Ogiński; Bernardines; Architectural commission.

ENThe present paper is dedicated to the publication and discussion of a document that has not yet appeared in scholarly circulation and historiography, namely the construction agreement of the Vitebsk Bernardine Church of St. Anthony, which is held in the National History Archive of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk. The agreement was made on 10 February 1742 in Vilnius (and enacted on 15 December 1744 at the Chancellery of the Castle Court in Vitebsk) with the participation of Giuseppe Fontana and the endower of the Vitebsk Bernardine Convent, the wife of the Vitebsk Voivode Marcjan Michał Ogiński, Tekla Anna Ogińska. The historical circumstances of this commission and its significance for the professional career of architect Giuseppe Fontana are revealed. The agreement under discussion not only testified to Fontana’s authorship, but also revealed the main reason why he chose the north-eastern lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania for his residence and professional activity. The acquaintance with the Ogiński family that belonged to the ruling elite and its patronage opened for the architect the prospects of work in the territory of Vitebsk and the neighbouring voivodeships. Fontana’s creative legacy allows us to assess the architect’s contribution to the development of architecture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 18th c. and assert that along with Johann Christoph Glaubitz he was one of the most productive and famous architects of his time. [From the publication]