Location Lviv, Ukraine Groundbreaking 1609 Opened 1615 Architectural type Renaissance architecture | Funded by Georgy Boim Completed 1615 Year consecrated 1615 Architect Andrzej Bemer | |
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Address Katedralna Square, 1, L'viv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, 79000 Hours Closed today MondayClosedTuesday11AM–6PMWednesday(International Women's Day)11AM–6PMHours might differThursday11AM–6PMFriday11AM–6PMSaturday11AM–6PMSunday12–5PM Patrons Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Adalbert of Prague Similar Dormition Church - Lviv, Lychakiv Cemetery, Pharmacy Museum, Lviv High Castle, Lviv Arsenal | ||
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The Boim Chapel (Ukrainian: Капли́ця Боїмів, Polish: Kaplica Boimów) is a monument of religious architecture in Cathedral Square, Lviv, Ukraine. The Boim Chapel was built from 1609 to 1615 and is part of Lviv's Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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The boim family chapel
History
The chapel was built on the territory of a contemporary urban cemetery near the Latin Cathedral. Lviv merchant Georgy Boim (born György Boym in Hungary) ordered and began the construction as a burial place for his family. His son, Pawel Boim, finished it. 14 members of the Boim family are buried in the chapel.
Andrzej Bemer is credited as the architect for the chapel. He followed a simplified diagram of the architecture of the Sigismund's Chapel at the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków with Italians' elements.
In the second half of the 18th century, the chapel was replaced by the Lviv cemetery as a burial place for the Boim family.
Architeсtural features
Stylistically, the chapel is one of the art of the late Renaissance. It was also influenced by Dutch sculptural decoration. The quality of the design and the lack of moderation persists in Kraków active works of Italian masters, but acting example of bourgeois art. The chapel was built on a square plan and is covered by a paneled dome based on an octagonal tambour. On the chapel lantern rises on eight fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals, covered again with a small dome, having a statue of Christ on top.
Chapel interior
The interior of the chapel includes four stone figures of prophets, located in the altar, which resembles some images on frieze. The whole plastic decoration is made of stucco. A special attention is paid to pendentives and the dome. On the pendentives, which have the rich framing of the telescopes from both sides. This framing consists of a flat - convex brass motifs and medallions with heads of angels, the same type as on the frieze external. On the pendentives there are angels, which hold cartouches with images of divinities, coats of arms and house marks.
Beneath them there are figurines of patrons, both founders: St. Stanislaus and Adalbert of Prague. The majority of sculptures of the chapel’s interior are made by Hans Ficher. The dome is divided into 36 rectangular panels, recessed in three rows. They fill the figures of Christ, the apostles, prophets, angels with instruments of the Passion Pańzkiej and saints. At the top of the dome there is the octagonal lantern light. This arrangement gives the impression of a much bigger height chapel than it actually is.
Three round windows provide chapel’s interior lighting. Two of them are situated at the top of the northern wall and another — under the dome of the octagonal lantern light on the western facade. Additional lighting is provided by four lower tier of the lower windows of the main facade.