COLLECTING HISTORICAL MILITARIA IN PARTITIONS-ERA WARSAW. PART II. FUNCTIONING IN SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS (Warszawskie koleckjonerstwo militariów historycznych okresu zaborów. cz. II. Funkcjonowanie w swiadomosci spolecznej)

• Authors: Ajewski Konrad
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Wider circles of society in the Kingdom of Poland experienced considerable difficulties with becoming familiar with private collections of magnificent examples of historical weaponry. Amassed in the residences of their owners, the collections were available only to a chosen few, the only exception being the armoury of General J. H. Dabrowski, rendered accessible to the public up to 1830. Brief opportunities of seeing the impressive weapons were created by, i. a. funeral ceremonies conducted after the death of the renowned military and statesmen, buried in Warsaw. In the course of such events, catafalques were decorated with historical weapons from various collections. The projects and execution of such ceremonies, created by Zygmunt Vogel, a painter and a professor at Warsaw University, were distinguished by a frequent application of banners and panoplies composed of historical weaponry and emphasising links with warfare. The most important ones were associated with the burials of Commander-in-Chief Prince Jozef Poniatowski (1813 and 1814), Napoleonic-era generals - Jan Henryk Dabrowski (1818) and Stanislaw Mokronowski (1821), as well as the commander of the Knights School during the reign of King Stanislaw Augustus - Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1823). The last religious-patriotic ceremony of this type preceded the outbreak of the November Uprising of 1830 and involved the consecration of a mausoleum containing the heart of King Jan III Sobieski in the Warsaw Capuchin church. In the second half of the nineteenth century, collectors of militaria enjoyed a chance to present their accomplishments in the course of antiquity exhibitions, organised since 1856 and stemming from widespread interest in the history of the Polish state. In lieu of a National Museum, absent in the oppressed country, the exhibitions displayed the previously concealed and dispersed magnificent Warsaw collections of historical weaponry, thus creating a foretaste of the Museum in a free homeland.

Keywords

EN

DABROWSKI JAN HENRYK; HISTORICAL MILITARIA; KINGDOM OF POLAND; PARTITIONS-ERA

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Krajowy Ośrodek Badań i Dokumentacji Zabytków
• Journal: Muzealnictwo
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 48
• Pages: 61-67
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ajewski Konrad

• Konrad Ajewski, Akademia Humanistyczna im. A. Gieysztora, Wydzial Historyczny, ul. Mickiewicza 36B, 06-100 Pultusk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08815