- Tytuł:
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Program ikonograficzny sali jadalnej Bialego domu w lazienkach krolewskich w warszawie. Wenus-Izyda-Masoneria
The Iconographic program of the Dining Room at the White House in Royal lazienki Gardens in Warsaw. Venus – Isis – Freemasonry - Autorzy:
- Dobrowolski, Witold
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/707092.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2012
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
- Tematy:
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Łazienki Gardens
freemasonry
iconography
Łazienki Królewskie
masoneria
ikonografia - Opis:
- In her recently published work, Aleksandra Bernatowicz, after carefully examining the decoration in the Dining Room of the White House, which shows motifs personifying the continents and the seasons with relevant works, concluded that the decor of the room hides a propagandist program praising royal virtues as a guarantee of the universal order. In the present paper, the author proposes a different, Masonic reading of the content. The central point of the decoration is the antique statue of Venus set in a niche located in the middle of the west wall, but facing east. A statue of the same type was found in 1764 in the sanctuary of Isis in Pompeii. Based on this analogy, as well as on the popular in the 18th century texts by Plutarch and Apuleius on the universality of the cult of Isis worshipped by various nations under different names, and in Pompeii also synonymous with Venus, the author identifies Venus with Isis, the personification of the Supreme Being of the 18th-century deists. Venus-Isis is accompanied by paintings containing Masonic motifs (personifications of the sun and the moon showing the presence of duality and conflict in the world; bee hives, the symbols of the Masonic lodge’s work on self-improvement; five-pointed stars as symbols of the human intellect powered by perception and action; a rose as a symbol of rebirth through pure light). Combining these meanings, the author comes to the conclusion that Isis-Venus, the Masonic goddess of nature or Earth, is the embodiment of divine love, which relieves the contrasts and contradictions occurring in the world.
- Źródło:
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Rocznik Historii Sztuki; 2012, 37; 201-228
0080-3472 - Pojawia się w:
- Rocznik Historii Sztuki
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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