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Sigismund II Augustus bequeathed his tapestry collection to the Polish Commonwealth; their massed display delighted Henri de Valois (future Henri III de France) at his 1573 coronation as Sigismund’s successor as (short-lived) King of Poland.
Mar 18, 2021 · Now, for the first time since Sigismund II Augustus’s day, the entire collection of 137 royal tapestries, ranging from monumental figurative textiles with biblical scenes, through verdures depicting animals and armorial tapestries, to small tapestries meant to cover furniture, will be on view.
Maria Hennel-Bernasikowa (Wawel Castle, Cracow) studies the Flemish tapestries assembled between 1550 and 1560 by Sigismund II Augustus of Poland. Based on reports and other documents, she demonstrates how these tapestries were used for a variety of Poland’s royal ceremonies including coronations, weddings, funerals, and other occasions, a ...
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 ...
Most of the tapestries, however, were commissioned by king Sigismund II Augustus in Brussels in the workshops of Willem and Jan de Kempeneer, Jan van Tieghem and Nicolas Leyniers between 1550-1565.
My article is devoted to the woodcut with the image of Polish King Sigismund II Augustus Jagiellon (1520-1572) and to the possible authorship of this early modern emblem.
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Sigismund II Augustus (Polish: Zygmunt II August, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548.
