Foreign publications

Karol Lanckoroński and His Viennese Collection

Karol Lanckoroński and His Viennese Collection

The first such in-depth scholarly account of the celebrated Lanckoroński collection reconstructs, based on archival sources, the holdings scattered and partly destroyed during World War II. The author traces the history of the collection from its inception in 1815 with  the purchase of paintings fro...
250,00 zł
Catalogue of the Tapestries of King Sigismund II Augustus

Catalogue of the Tapestries of King Sigismund II Augustus

Vol. 2 of the 3-volume catalogue raisonné The Collection of the Tapestries of King Sigismund II Augustus in the Collection of Wawel Royal CastleThe tapestry collection of Sigismund II Augustus—a symbol of Poland’s golden age under the Jagiellonian dynasty—is not only one of Poland’s national treasur...
180,00 zł
Portraiture in old Poland | Jan K. Ostrowski

Portraiture in old Poland | Jan K. Ostrowski

This landmark book is the first English-language study to tackle its subject in depth. Written by one of Poland’s foremost art historians, it is an essential text for readers keen to look beyond the Western European art centres that have dominated art history since the inception of the discipline....
159,00 zł
The Tapestries of Sigismund II Augustus: A History

The Tapestries of Sigismund II Augustus: A History

This book, the first volume of the three-volume catalogue raisonné of the tapestry collection of Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, covers the 450-year history of the collection. Originally numbering 160 pieces, it was the largest-ever tapestry commission woven for a single patron. The gold-woven tape...
120,00 zł
Masterpieces from the Lanckoroński Collection

Masterpieces from the Lanckoroński Collection

Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition, this book considers the art patron and creator of one of the largest private collections of Italian paintings in pre-war Europe—Count Karol Lanckoroński—and the history of his collection once housed in his palace at Jacquingasse in Vienna. In 1...
99,00 zł
Paintings from the Lanckoroński Collection from the 14th through 16th Centuries

Paintings from the Lanckoroński Collection from the 14th thr...

This collection catalogue features eighty-seven Italian Renaissance paintings donated to Wawel Royal Castle by Karolina Lanckorońska in 1994 and 2000. These pictures were once part of the splendid collection of Count Karol Lanckoroński in Vienna. Thought by many art historians to have been lost in W...
91,00 zł
Eseje o arrasach króla Zygmunta Augusta | Essays on the Tapestries of King Sigismund II Augustus

Eseje o arrasach króla Zygmunta Augusta | Essays on the Tape...

Billingual Publication (Polish/English). Tom III katalogu "Kolekcja arrasów króla Zygmunta Augusta w zbiorach Zamku Królewskiego na Wawelu" Eseje o arrasach króla Zygmunta Augusta, pióra znakomitej badaczki arrasów Magdaleny Piwockiej, to III tom trylogii poświęconej królewskim tapiseriom, na którą ...
90,00 zł
All the King’s Tapestries: Homecomings 2021–1961–1921

All the King’s Tapestries: Homecomings 2021–1961–1921

The catalogue All the King’s Tapestries: Homecomings 2021–1961–1921accompanies the exhibition of the same name on view at Wawel Royal Castle from March 18 through October 31, 2021. The exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Riga, which sealed Poland’s victory in the Polish-So...
79,00 zł
Treasures of the Orient in the Collections of Wawel Royal Castle

Treasures of the Orient in the Collections of Wawel Royal Ca...

This richly-illustrated volume presents over forty splendid objects from the Wawel collection of art from the Near and Far East, including several Ottoman Turkish tents. Throughout its history, the vast Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had myriad contacts with the lands of Islam, and their splendid ar...
70,00 zł