Przekaz symboliczny i propagandowy programów heraldycznych w siedemnastowiecznych żałobnych drukach Pacowskich, czyli "Liliaci" i ich Gozdawa
Journal Title: Przegląd Wschodni - Year 2018, Vol 14, Issue 56
Abstract
In the modern era the coat of arms, being a clear message showing the place of the family in the social hierarchy but also emphasizing the aspirations and views of its owner, has played an extremely important role. Therefore, civil servants’ and family ambitions, or even their desire, were not only associated with the necessity of conducting a well-thought-out founding policy, but also with the obligation to use signs in self and self-creation. The coat of arms in this context became a kind of legitimizing seal applied to funded buildings, their decor and equipment, but also on various occasional prints, of which the funeral, given the then pompa funebris, was given an important role as a communicator of specific content. This is what, from the time of Lithuanian Vice-Chancellor Stefan, the deputies of the Pac did, by including the family mark of Gozdawa into printed epicedias which were often used with extended frontispieces or even modest but multi-level coat of arms connected with verbal statements about them, to create word-visual stemmas characteristic for the modern day culture of the Republic of Poland. Gozdawa was associated with the lily flower, and the Pac family with the garden, where these lilies, or Pacas, bloomed with many virtues, serving God and their homeland. Hence, panegillists and creators of the frontispieces eagerly referred to this topos, accentuating the numerous virtues of successive Pac’s generations, holding honors, including a strong emphasis on the senatorial ministry (illustrations 2, 3). In addition, verbal and visual allusions were used to link family legends to ancient Rome. Undoubtedly, the most interesting heraldic programs related to the multilevel meaning referring not only to the aspirations of that year, but to the current situation of the Republic of Poland which arose during the time of prominent figure – Lithuanian chancellor Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac (illustrations 2, 3, 8).
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Anna Czyż
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