Warsaw Poland Metroplitan Museum of Art Saint Anne Whispering

St. Anne's Church Kościół św. Anny (in Polish)
Façade with statues of the Four Evangelists.

General data
Architectural style	Neoclassical (façade)
Boondocks or urban center	Warsaw
Land	Poland
Construction started	1454
Blueprint and structure
Builder	Chrystian Piotr Aigner (1788)

St. Anne's Church (Polish: Kościół św. Anny) is a church in the historic center of Warsaw, Poland, adjacent to the Castle Square, at Krakowskie Przedmieście 68. It is i of Poland's most notable churches with a Neoclassical facade. The church ranks among Warsaw's oldest buildings. Over fourth dimension, information technology has seen many reconstructions, resulting in its present-day appearance, unchanged since 1788. Currently information technology is the main church parish of the academic community in Warsaw.

History [edit]

In 1454 Duchess of Masovia Anna Fiodorowna^[1] (in some old books mistakenly chosen Holszanska), coming from a Ruthenized Lithuanian princely business firm, founded this church with a cloister for the Franciscan friars (Order of Friars Pocket-size).^[2]

The square in front end of the church was a place of solemn homages to Polish monarchs by the rulers of Prussia (the get-go one in 1578, the terminal 1 in 1621).^[3] In 1582 a slender tower was added to the church building. Some fourth dimension later on it was encompassed with a rampart and incorporated into the city fortifications.

The St. Anne's Church was reconstructed several times in 1603, 1634, 1636 and in 1667 (it was heavily damaged during the siege of Warsaw and plundered by Swedish and German troops in the 1650s).^[iv] ^[5] Between 1740 and 1760 the façade was reconstructed in rococo way according to Jakub Fontana's design and decorated with 2 filigree belfries.^[iii] The walls and semicircular vault ceilings of the church, divided into bays, were decorated at that fourth dimension with profuse paintings in perspective, using illusionary techniques and depicting scenes in the life of Saint Anne. A chapel of Saint Ładysław was too busy in this fashion. All paintings were by Friar Walenty Żebrowski.^[3]

The church building was reconstructed for the last fourth dimension between 1786 and 1788 by guild of King Stanisław August Poniatowski.

During the Warsaw Insurgence of 1794, function of the national Kościuszko Uprising in 1794, Bishop Józef Kossakowski, considered the traitor of the nation, was executed in front of the church building (hanged with a great applause by Warsaw inhabitants).^[3]

The roof of the church building was heavily damaged in the air raid on Warsaw in 1939 and then destroyed by fire in 1944^[ii] during the Warsaw Uprising but soon repaired.^[four] In 1949 the walls were undermined by the excavation for the WZ route and had to be apace reinforced. Restoration of all elements was undertaken from the 1940s-70s, supervised past architect Beata Trylińska [pl].^[ii]

Façade and interior [edit]

The present façade was built in 1788 in a Neoclassical style typical of the reign of King Stanisław Baronial Poniatowski, by Chrystian Piotr Aigner. Sculptors of that time were Jakub Monaldi and Franciszek Pinck, who carved statues of the 4 Evangelists which decorate the façade.^[3] The interior of the church is now in high-baroque style with several chapels. The church building makes an overwhelming impression on the visitor with its surprisingly rich interior filled with frescoes.

The just example of a diamond vault preserved in Warsaw can exist seen in the cloister leading to the vestry.

Notes [edit]

^ J. Tęgowski, Anna i Barbara – księżne mazowieckie z XV wieku. Przyczynek exercise genealogii Piastów mazowieckich, in: J. Śliwiński (cherry.), Społeczeństwo i polityka do XVII wieku, Olsztyn 1994
^ ^a ^b ^c "Kościół Św. Anny". swanna.waw (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2008-02-09 .
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^eastward Stefan Kieniewicz, ed. (1984). Warszawa w latach 1526–1795 (in Polish). Warsaw. ISBN83-01033-23-1.
^ ^a ^b "Kościół pw. św. Anny". warszawa1939.pl (in Smooth). Retrieved 2008-02-09 .
^ "Wieża kościoła św. Anny". foto.kai.pl (in Smoothen). Retrieved 2008-02-09 .