Salve,
today let us go back to Europe, and to the lands of the winged hussars.
some years ago I wrote about this painting - showing Polish tsarina Maryna Mniszech going to her coronation in Moscow. I wrote that that it had been lost.
Well, it has not been lost, but rather the Russian took it ... far away, to Russia, and presently it is kept at the Moscow State Historical Museum.
The canvass was painted (perhaps by Szymon Boguszowicz from Lwow), for the Mniszech family castle at Laszki Murowane during the first half of the XVII century, and then was taken to the Wiśniowiec Palace, the XVIII century opulent magnate residence of the Wisniowiecki and Mniszech families (destroyed mostly during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920, and some more during the 1939-45 period of the Soviet and German destruction of the cultured Central Europe).
and
a fragment of the above Maryna's coronation painting, showing splendid garments of the Polish nobility and her own coronation costume
in her betrothal painting there are more fine examples of historic Polish costumes
and finally her husband, tsar Dimitri , in a very royal stance typical of the period, appearing very martial wearing a set of armor not dissimilar from those worn by the wealthy winged hussar comrades.
enjoy
ps if you are in Moscow, Russia, try to see if they display these fine and very Polish XVII century paintings.
Equestrian Polish, Eurasian and the Americas history and horsemanship - from Bronze Age to circa1939AD. Historical equestrian art, my own artwork; reconstructions, and some traditional art media and digital artwork-related topics. All rights reserved unless permitted by 'Dariusz caballeros' aka DarioTW, copyleft or fair use.
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Sunday, July 31, 2016
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