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TAPESTRIES, FURNITURE AND MAJOLICA (15th -17th C.) FROM THE STATE ERMITAGE IN ST. PETERSBURG ON DISPLAY IN THE CASTLE MUSEUM IN MALBORK (Tapiserie, meble i Mikolajki XV-XVII wieku z panstwowego ermitrazu w St. Petersburgu w . Muzeum w Malborku)

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Chodynski A. R.

Muzealnictwo

2004

issue 45

80-88

The new international exhibition featured in the Castle Museum in Malbork (June-October 2004), entitled 'The Radiance of the Renaissance in a Mediaeval Castle', presents the applied and decorative arts from the collection of the State Ermitage in St. Petersburg. The display is composed of 65 exhibits from three great collections: the 25 tapestries were executed in Brussels workshops (14), Tournai or Aubusson (3), Antwerp or Brussels (1), France or Flanders (6) and Italy (1). The furniture - carved cassoni, cabinets, chairs, candelabra and chests - originates from Venice (3), Rome (1), Florence (1), North Italy (4), as well as unidentified Italian (7) and Parisian workshops (2). The Italian majolica was produced in Urbino (6), Castelli (2), and one each in Faenza, Deruta and Castel Durante. The historical and artistic value of the presented monuments is enhanced by the fact that many of them are connected with celebrated figures. One of the earliest tapestries - Wisdom (Brussels, end of fifteenth century) - is part of the Virtues series. In the Wedding of Mestra (Brussels, early sixteenth century), from the Story of Mestra series, the extraordinarily lavish costumes and jewellry worn by the depicted figures reflect the court of Margaret of Austria. The tapestry entitled Revelation of the Madonna ( Brussels, 1518), part of a series of four tapestries: The Legend of Our Lady of Le Sablon, is linked with the founder François de Taxis (1459-1517), head of the imperial post, and the lengthy and dramatic history of the four wall hangings, scattered, cut, sewn together and with frequently changing owners. The presented schemes are supplemented with inscriptions whose content corresponds to the origin of the cult of the Madonna of Le Sablon in Brussels. Four long Turin tapestries from the beginning of the sixteenth century display the Story of Christ and the Virgin Mary series, associated with Bishop Jacques d'Amboise and his commission from 1505-1516. The Seasons series of large wall hangings is a veritable masterpiece; two of the tapestries: Summer-Ceres and Autumn-Bacchus (Brussels, mid-sixteenth century) could be recognised as the highlight of the Malbork exhibition. The border around the fabrics, with a motif of intertwined ribbons, resembles an analogous element from the Wawel Arras tapestries. Two Ermitage tapestries: the Flood and Noah Performing a Sacrifice, were executed in Brussels during the second half of the sixteenth century in the Gulem van Cortenberg workshop. The models could have been cartoons by Michel Coxcie who sought inspiration in Renaissance works by Michelangelo and Raphael Santi.

DECORATIVE ART IN ROYAL PRUSSIA FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY TO THE FIRST PARTITION OF POLAND IN 1772 (Sztuka zdobnicza Prus Królewskich od XV wieku do pierwszego rozbioru Polski w 1792 roku)

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Chodynski A. R.

Muzealnictwo

2007

issue 48

192-201

The exhibition 'Jewel in the Crown of the Commonwealth. Decorative Art of Royal Prussia', opened from December 2006 to May 2007 in Zielona Brama, one of the seats of the National Museum in Gdansk and a former Gdansk residence of the Polish monarchs, continued a series of expositions presenting the artistic legacy of Royal Prussia, i.e. the region of Pomerania historically encompassing the former state of the Teutonic Order in Prussia, Gdansk Pomerania, part of Central Pomerania, and Warmia. The framework of the exposition included the Thirteen Years' War, the grant of major privileges to Gdansk by King Casimir IV Jagiellon, and the first partition of Poland in 1772 when Gdansk, together with Pomerania, fell to Prussia. The exhibition featured artistic objects which for the inhabitants of Royal Prussia were either utilitarian or reflected the social status and taste of their owners. Amber, gilded and white silver products, as well as inlaid or incrusted items were also treated as capital investment, a way to inspire admiration and build prestige. The display gathered exhibits from 14 domestic and seven foreign museums, more than ten cathedral, parish and rector churches, two cloisters, a private collector, and priceless manuscripts and graphic art from the collection of the Gdansk Library at the Polish Academy of Sciences. 49 authors presented the outcome of their research in almost 700 entries in an illustrated two-volume catalogue. The exhibition showcased representative groups of amber objects, liturgical goldsmithery, luxury, guild and table silverware, furniture, clocks, cloths and embroidery, iron, copper, brass, tin, bronze and bell-founding objects, as well as ceramic products divided into tiles and vessels. The event presented a wide selection of guild production in the larger and smaller centres of Royal Prussia. The exhibition made it possible to scientifically analyse nearly half of the presented objects for the very first time. This group includes furniture, pottery, smithery and foundry objects, as well as goldsmithery, the pride of the Gdansk, Elblag and Torun workshops. Out of the 234 presented goldsmithery objects, 55 have not been previously analysed, i. a. the works of Gdansk goldsmiths on loan from Focke Museum, a department of Bremer Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte and Galerie Neuse-Kunsthandel in Bremen, as well as the collections at the National Museum in Warsaw. The exhibition comprises a lasting contribution of Gdansk museology to national cultural and scientific legacy.

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TAPESTRIES, FURNITURE AND MAJOLICA (15th -17th C.) FROM THE STATE ERMITAGE IN ST. PETERSBURG ON DISPLAY IN THE CASTLE MUSEUM IN MALBORK (Tapiserie, meble i Mikolajki XV-XVII wieku z panstwowego ermitrazu w St. Petersburgu w . Muzeum w Malborku)

DECORATIVE ART IN ROYAL PRUSSIA FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY TO THE FIRST PARTITION OF POLAND IN 1772 (Sztuka zdobnicza Prus Królewskich od XV wieku do pierwszego rozbioru Polski w 1792 roku)