DOI Artikel:
Biedrońska-Słota, Beata: Kobierce islamu w polskim malarstwie: Przyczynek do ikonografii tkanin orientalnych
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21223#0130
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Beata Biedrońska-Słota
motifs of palmettes. In the collections of the National Museum in Cracow a very
similar textile, coming from around the rnid-17th century, has been preserved.
Popular in Poland were also Persian carpets. On the portrait representing
Prince Ladislas Sigismundus Vasa painted around 1625-30, now in the Czartoryski
Collections in Cracow, we can see a table covered with a carpet, whose prototype
was a Persian carpet executed in the period ofthe greatest development of classical
Persian manufactories, on the tum of the 16th and 17th century. Similarly, a Per-
sian carpet was reproduced by the painter of Stanisław TęczyńskPs portrait, exe-
cuted around 1634. In this case the prototype may have been the so-called Polish
carpet, imported from Persia at the beginning of the 17th century. In tum, in two
portraits showing King John III Sobieski alone and with his son Jakub, respectively,
painted by J. Tricius in 1676, the table is covered with an identical carpet, whose
pattem repeats the design typical of Persian tied carpets produced in Kirman in the
17th century. Still another type of Persian carpet appears in some pictures painted
by P. Danckers around 1630 (two małe and one female portrait). The analysis of
omaments demonstrates that these paintings reproduce the so-called medallion car-
pet, according to the literaturę on the subject, executed in Persia in the early 17th
century.
In the analysed Oriental carpets preserved till our days a certain regularity is
visible. Though it was easy to find in the Polish collections the specimens related to
Turkish carpets represented in the paintings, only with difficulty could we link the
painted Persian carpets with the items preserved in the collections. From what can
by judged on the basis of the materiał, there exist no analogies to the latter in Po-
land. Turkish carpets were imported to Poland in larger numbers; they were also
smaller in size than the Persian products, owing to which they were less exposed to
destruction. What is morę, they were kept mainly in the estates of the gentry, church
and monasteries and in burghers’ houses. Thus, being better protected, they suffered
less from wars and pillages.
Beata Biedrońska-Słota
motifs of palmettes. In the collections of the National Museum in Cracow a very
similar textile, coming from around the rnid-17th century, has been preserved.
Popular in Poland were also Persian carpets. On the portrait representing
Prince Ladislas Sigismundus Vasa painted around 1625-30, now in the Czartoryski
Collections in Cracow, we can see a table covered with a carpet, whose prototype
was a Persian carpet executed in the period ofthe greatest development of classical
Persian manufactories, on the tum of the 16th and 17th century. Similarly, a Per-
sian carpet was reproduced by the painter of Stanisław TęczyńskPs portrait, exe-
cuted around 1634. In this case the prototype may have been the so-called Polish
carpet, imported from Persia at the beginning of the 17th century. In tum, in two
portraits showing King John III Sobieski alone and with his son Jakub, respectively,
painted by J. Tricius in 1676, the table is covered with an identical carpet, whose
pattem repeats the design typical of Persian tied carpets produced in Kirman in the
17th century. Still another type of Persian carpet appears in some pictures painted
by P. Danckers around 1630 (two małe and one female portrait). The analysis of
omaments demonstrates that these paintings reproduce the so-called medallion car-
pet, according to the literaturę on the subject, executed in Persia in the early 17th
century.
In the analysed Oriental carpets preserved till our days a certain regularity is
visible. Though it was easy to find in the Polish collections the specimens related to
Turkish carpets represented in the paintings, only with difficulty could we link the
painted Persian carpets with the items preserved in the collections. From what can
by judged on the basis of the materiał, there exist no analogies to the latter in Po-
land. Turkish carpets were imported to Poland in larger numbers; they were also
smaller in size than the Persian products, owing to which they were less exposed to
destruction. What is morę, they were kept mainly in the estates of the gentry, church
and monasteries and in burghers’ houses. Thus, being better protected, they suffered
less from wars and pillages.