Nemenčinės bažnyčia Adomo Daukšos nuotraukose

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Adomas Daukša; Adomo Daukšos fotografijos; Bažnyčia; Ekspozicija; Fotografijos; Ikonografija; Lietuvos dailės muziejus; Nemenčinė; Nemenčinės bažnyčia; Adomas Daukša; Church of Nemenčinė; Exposition; Iconography; Lithuanian Fine Art Museum; Nemenčinė; Photographs of Adomas Daukša; Photography; The church.

ENThe article reports about the collection of 19th–20th c. Vilnius’ photographer Adam Dauksza stored in Lithuanian Art Museum. It was ascertained that some photographs dating back the beginning of the 20th c. provide detailed documentary images of St. Michael the Archangel Church in Nemenčinė and its chapels. Its exteriors has remained unchanged till our days, however, the interior is essentially different because of the 1947 fire. Photographs of A. Dauksza are very important and the only remaining iconographical evidence on this lost cultural heritage. The photographer from different angles took the church (built 1848–1855) and its surroundings: fence of the churchyard (1885) with forged iron gate (1886), tomb stones that were installed inside the church and outside of it (one for the rector of Vilnius Theological College and parson of Nemenčinė Antoni Kitkiewicz), a chapel and a memorial plate of the founders of the church – Parczewsky family. Interior images of the great, lateral and chapels’ altars are especially valuable. Some sources ascertain that the author of the church and its interior was a follower of Vilnius’ art school Jósef Mackiewicz. Works of carving and goldsmith were carried out by a sculpturer from Vilnius Jósef Kozłowski, author of altar paintings is an amateur painter Róża Parczewska who created a copy of Raphael’s “Transfiguration” and Jan Moraczynski who created paintings of St. George and St Michael Archangel. Retables of lateral altars of the church, painting depicting the “Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary” attributed to Szymon Czechowicz and likely some other valuables were transferred from the closed Trakai Bernardine Church. Nowadays photographs of A. Daukša can provide some critical information for any research on this lost artistic heritage. [From the publication]