Project of the Church in Humenets

Yevhen Nahirnyi

Basic information

ID: ФНаг-Лев-Арх-2623
Author: Yevhen Nahirnyi
Name: Project of the Church in Humenets
Date of creation: 1927
Technique: drawing
Material: tracing paper Indian ink
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 45.2 x 33.8

Additionally

Genre: architecture
Provenance: Nahirnyi-Lev Fund
Place: Humenets village, Lviv region

Information about author

Author: Yevhen Nahirnyi
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine

Object description

The drawing combines images of a ground plan and a foundation plan from an unrealised church project for the village of Humenets. It is a cruciform building with a rectangular transept and apse. There are symmetrically arranged sacristies and chapels on both sides of the transept. The babynets is surrounded by an arcade. Above the transept, there is a hemispherical vault covered with a pavilion roof (Lev Kh., Slobodian V., Filevych N. 100 Churches of the Nahirnyi family. Part Two: Churches of Yevhen Nahirnyi. Lviv, 2015. P. 125).

Inscriptions

Upper left is an ink inscription: "Project of the church in Humenets"; slightly lower on the left: "Parterre"; right: "Plinth"; lower left: "Lviv September 1927"; lower right: "Scale 1:100 arch / signature / Yevhen Nahirnyi".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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