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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 ...
Jul 16, 2023 · When Nazi Germany attacked Poland in 1939, Sigismund Augustus’ tapestries were evacuated to Canada as a national relic. It was not until 1961 that the invaluable collection was returned to Poland, to the Wawel Royal Castle. This exhibition presents all groups from the collection of Sigismund Augustus’ tapestries.
ca. 1555, Brussels, Belgium. Wawel Royal Castle – National Art Collection. This tapestry of a group of monogram grotesques with the initials of King Sigismund II Augustus placed under a crown in a decorative cartouche belongs to a series of seven drapes (door curtains).
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This symbolic return of Sigismund II Augustus’s collection to the walls of Wawel Castle in 2021 coincides with the exact anniversaries of two earlier homecomings. The first, which took place sixty years ago, ended the decades-long odyssey begun with the tapestries’ dramatic evacuation from Wawel in the first days of World War II.
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 ...
US$ 30.12 Shipping. From Netherlands to U.S.A. Quantity: 1. Add to Basket. Cracow, 1998. 127 pp. 42 col. plts. Stiff softcover. The Flemish Tapestries at Wawel Castle in Cracow. Treasuress of King Sigismund Augustus Jagiello. Edited under the direction of Professor Jerzy Szablowski.
Probably the first from that series to be completed and consisting of eight panels was supplied to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland as part of the 142 tapestries he purchased in The Netherlands between 1548 and 1572 (G. Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, Tielt, 1999, pp. 130-134). This pair, although related, was designed by an unidentified ...
