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Jul 16, 2023 · Visitors will be able to see 37 textiles – 9 tapestries with biblical scenes of the First Parents, Noah and construction of the Babel Tower, 10 verdures, 6 tapestries with the ruler’s initials, 10 textiles with the coats of arms of Lithuania and Poland and 2 smaller tapestries.
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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).
