МИСТЕЦЬКІ РЕЧІ У ПОБУТІ ЛЬВІВСЬКИХ МІСЬКИХ ПИСАРІВ XVI-XVIII СТОЛІТЬ

Bohdana Petryshak

Everyday life of Lviv clerks who were the representatives of city`s elite was surrounded by everyday things, which were valuable in art. The taste to things like this was sometimes formed in childhood in case a clerk came from a wealthy family or while studying at academies and universities when they had a chance to buy or get a valuable thing as a present. It was often done because of surrounding people who thought it was in fashion to decorate homes, to wear jewelry, to use decorative items. In the place of work, city office, clerks also had things that performed not only a practical function, but also were decorated with gilding, carving, embossing, made of precious metals. The walls of the rooms in the city council were covered with carpets, portraits, icons, sometimes the city`s attributes of power were hidden there. There were not many differences between the home interiors of clerks and typical bourgeois ones, but it could contain professional things like letter boxes, caskets, inkstands, pen and more valuable items. The office clerks received presents from city government, customers, purchased and brought expensive items travelling to other towns. Most of information about them may be found in the clerks property inventories which were not always complete and didn`t contain fruthful facts.

scribes, everyday life, artistic things, Lviv