Palaimintojo Simono iš Lipnicos paveikslas iš Vilniaus Bernardinų bažnyčios

LTStraipsnyje nagrinėjama viena drobė iš paveikslų ciklo, sukurto XVII-XVIII a. Vilniaus bernardinų konvento užsakymu. Remiantis ikonografija ir istoriniais šaltiniais, identifikuojama drobėje pavaizduota scena iš palaimintojo Simono iš Lipnicos gyvenimo. Lyginant su panašaus siužeto paveikslu iš Krokuvos bernardinų bažnyčios, keliama prielaida, kad abu kūrinius nutapė XVII a. antroje pusėje Vilniuje dirbęs dailininkas Jonas Gotardas Berkhofas (Johann Gothard Berchhoff).

ENThe cycle of paintings that are the focus of this article were created between the 17th and 18th centuries and hung in the first floor of the gallery of the convent until the closing of the Bernardine church in 1949. The surviving part of this cycle is currently kept in the Lithuanian Art Museum. The aforementioned works were taken to this museum circa 1958, but were not properly analyzed from either the perspective of their subject or their authorship. Some of the canvases were intended for the Saints of the Bernardine order. This article analyses one of the paintings of this cycle,"An Everyday Scene from the Lives o f the Monks" as it was named in the documents of the museum. The article proposes that the Bernardine monk who is depicted on the canvas lived in the Cracow convent in the 15th century and that he is the Blessed Simon of Lipnica (canonized in 2007). The painting is identified and its subject is explained by referring to descriptions from the life of Blessed Simon of Lipnica and his iconography. In 1686 a work of a similar composition was painted by Johann Gotthard Berchhoff in Vilnius; this painting was created by order of the convent of the Cracow Bernardines during the preparations for a celebration of the beatification of Simon of Lipnica. This canvas survived in the chapel of the entombment of Simon from Lipnica in the Cracow church of the Bernardine convent. The article presents the hypothesis that this painting could have been painted by the author of the Vilnius cycle, as the two images have both subject and style in common. The consideration is made that the painter J.G. Berchhoff, who worked in Vilnius in the second half of the 17th century, could be the author of a few more paintings of the Bernardine cycle.