Słowo i obraz w piśmiennictwie kręgu eparchii przemyskiej XVII–XVIII wieku

The article is devoted to the relations between literature and visual arts. The texts created on the initiative of the church hierarchs of the Przemyśl eparchy reflect the striving for the synthesis of arts and the visuality of the literary text, characteristic of the baroque era, both in Polish and Ukrainian culture. It took various forms depending on the subject of the work and its genre character. A pomjanyk of Bishop Innocent Winnicki combined a graphic element devoted to soteriological and vanitative themes with the memory of the dead. The series of portraits of the deceased bishops of the Przemyśl eparchy created in the mid-18th century have short epitaphs or, in the case of bishop Onufry Szumlański, a panegyric epigram with references to the symbolism of the coat of arms. An interesting example is Nomen Maximilianus written in honor of bishop Maksymilian Ryło by Ignacy Pilawski. The work consisted of an allegorical emblematic poem of a heraldic character and 12 anagrams built around the bishop’s name, in which the author used many allegorical images to interest the reader and skillfully praise the protagonist of the work. The analysis of these texts shows how important it was for the authors of the time to influence the reader’s imagination with the visual effect of a literary work.