Queen Sophie Chapel

Queen Sophie Chapel
	View from the west
Construction year:	1431
Inauguration:	1432
Style elements :	Gothic , baroque , classicism , art nouveau
Client:	Catholic Church
Location:	50 ° 3 '16.7 " N , 19 ° 56' 5.8" E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '16.7 " N , 19 ° 56' 5.8" E
Address:	Wawel ; Krakow ; Lesser Poland , Poland
Purpose:	Roman Catholic burial church
Diocese :	Krakow

Left of the main entrance

The Queen Sophie Chapel is one of the 19 chapels that surround the Kraków Cathedral . It is also called the seminar chapel. It is consecrated to the Holy Trinity.

history

The chapel was built by Queen Sophie Holszańska between 1431 and 1432 . donated to the fourth wife of King Ladislaus II Jagiełło . She was also buried in the chapel. The vault was decorated with Byzantine frescoes by Ruthenian painters. At the beginning of the 17th century - around 1613 to 1615 - the chapel was rebuilt in the early Baroque style as a burial chapel for Bishop Piotr Tylicki by Fryderyk Szembek , whereby the Byzantine frescoes were initially preserved. In 1830 the tomb for Włodzimierz Potocki by Bertel Thorvaldsen was built in the chapel , on which Potocki is depicted as a Greek hoplite. Thorvaldsen also created the relief of the death genius in the chapel. Between 1836 and 1844 the chapel was rebuilt again, this time by Francesco Maria Lanci . Adam Tadolini and Luigi Pampaloni created the tomb of Anna Potocka and Dominico Cardelli that of their mother Konstancja Poniatowska . The last time the chapel was remodeled between 1899 and 1904, this time by Sławomir Odrzywolski . Włodzimierz Tetmajer created the new frescoes and stained glass windows in Art Nouveau style.