Stanisława Samostrzelnika renesansowa dekoracja heraldyczna klasztoru Cystersów w Mogile

The author aims to familiarise the Stanisław Samostrzelnik’s last-known works, which were polychrome decorations in the convent church, walls and vaulting of the monastery cloisters and vaulting of the library hall in the same abbey. In carrying out this commission, the artist focused on the heraldic decorations worked into this interior decoration, which can be read as a symbolic map of this religious house’s contacts within the Church structure of Małopolska, as well as representing the group of potential intimate friends and protectors of abbot Erazm Ciołek, the cannon of Cracow and Laodician bishop; a humanist fascinated by Erasmus of Rotterdam’s writings and closely connected to the royal court as well as Cracow University.