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Tomasz Krzykała

The St Leonard church in Słupca

The St Leonard church in Słupca

 

There was a twilight inside the little church made of wood. The low walls which were almost too low to might be associated as walls of church, were all covered with bright-brown, warm color of old paintings. The atmosphere was calm, mystical a little, but in fact well-disposed and full of unpretentiousness of plain village church. I was kneeling in the porch separated from the inside of the church by iron grille shaped in the rows of lilies and I was trying to see exactly what was painted all over the walls. On the left, next to the organ-loft there was a scene of tortures of souls in the hell. Renaissance painter showed, inefficient a little, but with much pleasure various kinds of causing pain to a human being by devils, but his demons had the average faces of average people. There are in fact many people you know looking like them. I tried to imagine the time of creation of this painting – Polish XVI century, the ”Golden Age” of the state which had to end soon in the Armageddon of “Swedish Deluge”, and among many other wars which almost completely destroyed the country. I looked at the hell which bore “familiar faces” but this familiarity couldn’t deprive it of the cruelty. Inversely ! It was much more sophisticated cruelty.

At the right top corner of the scene there was a beautiful effigy of town painted with much of yellow (it looked as if a color of old gold), bright red, even green or azure. It was one of the most beautiful views of an ideal town from mystical dreams of folk which had yet Medieval roots. I don’t know if am I right or not but for me it was “Jerusalem in Heaven”. It was the portrait of the hilarity indeed !

“Is it all right? – I asked myself looking at the picture – Is it all right to find a balance, or maybe I should chose the one part of the picture only ?”

There was twilight inside the church. 

 
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