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The Tapestries of Sigismund II Augustus: A History Volume 9 of Catalogue of the collection / Wawel Royal Castle Volume 9 of Katalog Zbiorów - Zamek Królewski na Wawelu Państwowe Zbiory Sztuki Volume 9 of Katalog zbiorów, Zamek Królewski na Wawelu Volume 1 of Kolekcja Arrasów Króla Zygmunta Augusta w zbiorach zamku Królewskiego na Wawelu
Sigismund Augustus’ tapestries were created in circa 1550–1560, meaning the collection was formed over the course of about ten years. The first two series of biblical tapestries were completed in 1553, when these sublime textiles decorated the halls of Wawel Castle on the occasion of Sigismund Augustus’ marriage to Catherine Habsburg, delighting and leaving the gathered guests in awe at ...
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.
Oleksii Rudenko. 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. The composition for the first time is noted in the second Vienna 1560 edition of ‘Confessio fidei’, written by Polish bishop and later – a Cardinal ...
- Magdalena Piwocka
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 ...
Commissioned by Sigismund II Augustus (r. 1548–1572), the tapestries were woven in 1550–1560 in Brussels, then the leading center for European tapestry production. It was the largest group of tapestries ever executed as a single commission and remains one of the most significant collections of its kind in the world.
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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 ...
