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- Author after a cartoon by an artist from the circle of Cornelis Floris and Cornelis Bos
- Performed by Jan van Tieghem workshop
- Date of production ca. 1555
- Place of creation Brussels
- Dimensions height: 156 cm, width: 292.5 cm
- Author's designation Jan van Tieghem's weaver mark in the bottom right corner
- ID no. ZKWawel 85
- Museum Wawel Royal Castle – State Art Collection
- Availability The Military Review 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 mitology , Wawel , manor house , Renaissance , fabric , coat of arms , ornament , 3D plus , King , animals , plants , public domain
The tapestry depicts Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory. At her bare feet lies a pile of weapons; she is flanked by two coats of arms: of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. On her right are the arms of the Kingdom Poland – the Eagle with the monogram of Sigismund II Augustus, the last king of the Jagiellonian dynasty – surmounted by a closed crown. The arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania – the Charging Knight surmounted by the Grand Ducal cap – are on her left. The winged goddess is attired in a breastplate. In one hand, she holds a laurel wreath, in the other a broken spear. The olive branches behind her symbolize peace. Victoria is shown against a red background with a decorative framework recalling wrought iron that serves as a scaffolding of sorts for bunches of fruit and flowers.
The oval blue fields in which the coats of arms are placed are entwined with climbing plants. The White Eagle with the royal monogram is surrounded by vines, and the Lithuanian Charging Knight by pea plants with both blooms and mature pods. Birds perch on hanging bunches of fruit in the upper part of the tapestry and on the decorative framework at the bottom.
The tapestry depicts Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory. At her bare feet lies a pile of weapons; she is flanked by two coats of arms: of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. On her right are the arms of the Kingdom Poland – the Eagle with the monogram of Sigismund II Augustus, the last king of the Jagiellonian dynasty – surmounted by a closed crown. The arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania – the Charging Knight surmounted by the Grand Ducal cap – are on her left. The winged goddess is attired in a breastplate. In one hand, she holds a laurel wreath, in the other a broken spear. The olive branches behind her symbolize peace. Victoria is shown against a red background with a decorative framework recalling wrought iron that serves as a scaffolding of sorts for bunches of fruit and flowers.
The oval blue fields in which the coats of arms are placed are entwined with climbing plants. The White Eagle with the royal monogram is surrounded by vines, and the Lithuanian Charging Knight by pea plants with both blooms and mature pods. Birds perch on hanging bunches of fruit in the upper part of the tapestry and on the decorative framework at the bottom.
Victoria, placed between the two coats of arms, symbolises the political unity of the two states and the care she exercises over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The tapestry is part of a series consisting of eight textiles depicting the coats of arms of Poland and Lithuania and the goddess of victory. A set of four textiles with the coats of arms of Poland and Lithuania and the figure of Ceres is very similar in terms of composition and meaning.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Poland License.
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