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Mroziewicz, Karolina Anna: Pamięć o wjeździe Zygmunta III do Krakowa (1587) i problem reprezentacji oprawy artystycznej uroczystości w przekazach drukowanych w XVI i XVII wieku
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PAMIĘĆ O WJEŻDZIE ZYGMUNTA III DO KRAKOWA (1587)...
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THE MEMORY OF SIGISMUND Ill’S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO KRAKOW (1587)
AND THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTING ITS ARTISTIC SETTING
IN 16th AND 17th CENTURY PRINTS
Summary
The ceremonial entry of Sigismund III into Krakow on 9 December 1587 was an important event in the international arena, but
it was particularly important for the urban community of Cracow, who greatly supported his candidacy as the king of Poland. For the
capital city, which organised and incurred the costs of the ceremony, the arrival of the newly elected ruler meant a happy ending to
the siege and the related war effort. The most detailed description of the entry, and the only illustrated one, which was most likely
prepared in advance, is preserved in a printed festival book called Sigismundi tertii Cracoviam ingressus. It shows the topographic and
administrative scenery of the entry, its individual stages as well as the artistic and epigraphic setting. The prose-like description of the
triumphal entry, the ideologically coherent portrayal of kings and the related poetic works make equal components of the print. They are
a visual and literary praise of Sigismund III and the genealogy of his legitimate rule, based on the Jagiellonian roots and his military
victory over Maximilian. Reprints, translations, and numerous references to this message in the 16th-and U^-century printed material
ensured its long-standing influence in Poland and abroad. The content of the message was adjusted to the interests of various reading
groups and specific political interests, but during the process of its reception the description of the entrada did not lose its identity, and
propagated the image of the ceremony depicted in the Sigismundi tertii Cracoviam ingressus for posterity.
The study of Jakub Siebeneicher’s print from the point of view of its textual and visual message, its circulation space within
which it functioned, and the role it played in shaping the memory of Sigismund Ill’s entry into Krakow, made it possible to identify
a number of problems related to the ways of representing the artistic setting of the triumphal entry in prints. It was pointed out that in
printed language the artistic setting of the entrada was rendered by typographical and graphic means, through cited inscriptions distin-
guished by different fonts, as well as full-page woodcuts functioning as ideograms of the monarchs and their royal power. In the process
of translating one text of culture (artistic setting) into another (printed message) many meanings, symbols and images escaped, but the
effect was still a coherent, clear and lasting message about Sigismund Ill’s entry into Krakow. It imposed ready-made interpretative
formulas on subsequent generations of its readers, which spread the fame of the ruler and of the city welcoming him, and harked back
to the common heroic and political past of the Kingdom of Poland and Krakow.
fransi. Katarzyna Krzyżagórska-Pisarek
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THE MEMORY OF SIGISMUND Ill’S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO KRAKOW (1587)
AND THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTING ITS ARTISTIC SETTING
IN 16th AND 17th CENTURY PRINTS
Summary
The ceremonial entry of Sigismund III into Krakow on 9 December 1587 was an important event in the international arena, but
it was particularly important for the urban community of Cracow, who greatly supported his candidacy as the king of Poland. For the
capital city, which organised and incurred the costs of the ceremony, the arrival of the newly elected ruler meant a happy ending to
the siege and the related war effort. The most detailed description of the entry, and the only illustrated one, which was most likely
prepared in advance, is preserved in a printed festival book called Sigismundi tertii Cracoviam ingressus. It shows the topographic and
administrative scenery of the entry, its individual stages as well as the artistic and epigraphic setting. The prose-like description of the
triumphal entry, the ideologically coherent portrayal of kings and the related poetic works make equal components of the print. They are
a visual and literary praise of Sigismund III and the genealogy of his legitimate rule, based on the Jagiellonian roots and his military
victory over Maximilian. Reprints, translations, and numerous references to this message in the 16th-and U^-century printed material
ensured its long-standing influence in Poland and abroad. The content of the message was adjusted to the interests of various reading
groups and specific political interests, but during the process of its reception the description of the entrada did not lose its identity, and
propagated the image of the ceremony depicted in the Sigismundi tertii Cracoviam ingressus for posterity.
The study of Jakub Siebeneicher’s print from the point of view of its textual and visual message, its circulation space within
which it functioned, and the role it played in shaping the memory of Sigismund Ill’s entry into Krakow, made it possible to identify
a number of problems related to the ways of representing the artistic setting of the triumphal entry in prints. It was pointed out that in
printed language the artistic setting of the entrada was rendered by typographical and graphic means, through cited inscriptions distin-
guished by different fonts, as well as full-page woodcuts functioning as ideograms of the monarchs and their royal power. In the process
of translating one text of culture (artistic setting) into another (printed message) many meanings, symbols and images escaped, but the
effect was still a coherent, clear and lasting message about Sigismund Ill’s entry into Krakow. It imposed ready-made interpretative
formulas on subsequent generations of its readers, which spread the fame of the ruler and of the city welcoming him, and harked back
to the common heroic and political past of the Kingdom of Poland and Krakow.
fransi. Katarzyna Krzyżagórska-Pisarek