Sujet

Presenting the Fowler to the Fowler Brotherhood (Sketch), 1876. Creator: Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz.

Légende

Presenting the Fowler to the Fowler Brotherhood (Sketch), 1876. According to legend in 1565, King Sigismund II presented the Fowler Brotherhood of Krakow with the Silver Fowler bird, The paramilitary organisation was set up to defend the city from attacks by enemy armies. Clad in Renaissance costumes, the fraternity members are huddled around the Jagiellonian monarch, who is presenting the gift. The solemnity of the event is added to by the figures of halberdiers flanking the solemn scene.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A45_145

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

27,2Mo (4,3Mo) / 33,9cm x 20,1cm / 4000 x 2378 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe building buildings people male man men historical arts painting country figure figures statue statues society monarch art trade guy romantic continent steps museum European color king Poland royal scene polish step war gift present Renaissance depiction location century terrace stairs statuette presentation presenting National Museum soldiers soldier royalty dynasty concept Krakow legend exhibition exhibit guild romanticism sketch fraternity Cracow sketches oil Painting Colour 19th century legendary 1870s nineteenth century culture history historic 1876 grand duke Grand Duke of Lithuania sovereign TGN Sigismund II halberdier paramilitary oil Augustus oil on cardboard King of Poland Romantic Era presented Painting Heritage Art Sigismund II Augustus Sigismund Augustus cardboard 19th-century Jagiellonian National Museum in Krakow Niepolomice Museum Lesser Poland Voivodeship MNK National Museum in Kraków Zygmunt August Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz Luszczkiewicz Wladyslaw Fowler Brotherhood Silver Fowler