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- Author after a cartoon by an artist from the circle of Cornelis Floris and Cornelis Bos
- Performed by Master of Geometrical Mark workshop
- Date of production ca. 1555
- Place of creation Brussels
- Dimensions height: 98 cm, width: 244 cm
- Author's designation weaver’s mark in the bottom right corner
- ID no. ZKWawel 67
- Museum Wawel Royal Castle – State Art Collection
- Availability The Planet Room
- Subjects authority, nature
- Technique weaving
- Material wool, silk, silver thread, gold thread
- Collector collection of King Sigismund Augustus
- Object copyright Wawel Royal Castle – State Art Collection
- Digital images copyright public domain
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Digitalisation of the most significant tapestries from the collection of Wawel Royal Castle project
- Tags Wawel , Renaissance , coat of arms , 3D plus , King , animals , plants , public domain
This textile was designed to be hung over a door, hence its shape – a rectangle topped with an arc. In its centre, there is the coat of arms of Lithuania – the Charging Knight, turned to the left. The arms are surmounted by the grand ducal cap and suspended on floral garlands. Exotic animals are presented on either side of the coat of arms: on the left, a small predator prowls around, while on the right, a sits monkey that seems to be staring at the viewer. In the background of the tapestry, an immature forest can be seen.
more This textile was designed to be hung over a door, hence its shape – a rectangle topped with an arc. In its centre, there is the coat of arms of Lithuania – the Charging Knight, turned to the left. The arms are surmounted by the grand ducal cap and suspended on floral garlands. Exotic animals are presented on either side of the coat of arms: on the left, a small predator prowls around, while on the right, a sits monkey that seems to be staring at the viewer. In the background of the tapestry, an immature forest can be seen.
Take a closer look at the cross on the knight’s shield. This is the personal coat of arms of the Jagiellonian dynasty. It allows us to identify the commissioning party, like the royal monogram SA on the chest of the White Eagle in the coat of arms of Poland, which can be seen, on the over-window tapestry with the arms of Poland – (inv. no. 73).
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