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A symbolic return of Sigismund Augustus’s tapestries to the Wawel Castle exhibition has been planned for 2021 intentionally, on the crucial anniversaries of two earlier homecomings. On March 18, 1961, an important display of the royal tapestries was held in the castle chambers to celebrate their return from Canada, where they had found ...
Tapestry with shield-bearing satyrs and monogram SA of king Sigismund Augustus, ca. 1555. The Jagiellonian tapestries ( Polish: Arrasy wawelskie ), are a collection of tapestries woven in the Netherlands and Flanders, which originally consisted of 365 pieces assembled by the Jagiellons to decorate the interiors of the royal Wawel Castle in ...
All the King’s Tapestries: Homecomings 2021-1961-1921 is the catalogue that accompanied a major exhibition held at the Wawel in 2021 marking the hundredth anniversary of the restitution of Sigismund II Augustus’s tapestries to Poland. This restitution, agreed between Poland and Russia in March 1921, returned the tapestries to Cracow after ...
Apr 20, 2023 · A tapestry collection of Sigismund Augustus, a 16-century King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, has been brought from the Royal Castle of Wawel in Krakow to Vilnius for an exhibition at the Palace of the Grand Dukes. This is one of the most complex and expensive exhibitions in the history of Lithuanian museology, the museum said on Thursday.
Jun 21, 2021 · Over a decade, between 1550 and 1560, he ordered from Brussels 160 magnificent tapestries to decorate the royal apartments of the castle. The first set of these – showing biblical scenes – was probably intended for the coronation of Sigismund’s second and much-loved wife, Barbara Radziwiłł, in December 1550. It was, however, not ...
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They say that King Sigismund II Augustus (Zygmunt August) had him summon the spirit of his beloved though prematurely deceased wife, Barbara Radziwiłłówna. The collection of tapestries from the unique collection of Sigismund II Augustus, made in Brussels in the mid-16th century, are the most valuable of all the works of art displayed here ...
