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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.
The masterpieces designed by the authors of cardboard paintings were created at the request of King Sigismund Augustus as part of a collection comprising approximately 160 tapestries intended for the decoration of the Wawel Royal Castle.
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Initially, there were about 170 tapestries in the royal collection, among them 84 black-and-white tapestries with the royal crest and the letters SA, 8 tapestries which Sigismund I the Old had been received from the Emperor Maximilian I, and others, gifts from foreign delegations.
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 ...
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.
Jun 21, 2021 · Of the original 160 tapestries, 137 survive. Nineteen are biblical scenes, designed by Michiel Coxcie the Elder (1499–1592) and comprising episodes from the Old Testament, from Adam and Eve to the building of the Tower of Babel. Sigismund’s was the editio princeps of this series, much copied through to 1700.
May 5, 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.
