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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 ...
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.
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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Jul 16, 2023 · Sigismund Augustus’ tapestries were created in circa 1550–1560, meaning the collection was formed over the course of about ten years.
Nov 21, 2008 · Tapestry with monogram "SA" of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland/Lithuania, Brussels, c. 1555. Part of famous Jagiellonian Tapestries, also known as the Wawel Tapestries or Wawel Arrases.
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.
Oct 1, 2015 · Sigismund II Augustus’s Armorial Tapestry from Vilnius, which goes on view this month at the Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow, is the result of serendipity.
