Worth a look
“Masterpieces from the Lanckoroński Collection: A Second Look” Exhibition at the Wawel Royal Castle in Cracow
Art and Heritage in Central Europe
Thirty years ago, in October 1994, paintings donated by Professor Karolina Lanckorońska arrived at Wawel. They were part of a collection of Italian paintings, mainly from the 15th and 16th centuries, gathered by her father Karol in the Lanckoroński family palace in Vienna. The Wawel collection, supplemented by the Donator in 2000 with the painting “Jupiter Painting Butterflies” by Dosso Dossi and enlarged by several works donated under her will in 2002, is exhibited in the halls on the first floor of the Castle.
The exhibition presents three Italian paintings that were an integral part of Karol Lanckoroński’s Viennese collection, and after World War II were sold by the family to American and European collections. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has a panel depicting Saint Andrew by Masaccio, one of the most important painters of the Italian Quattrocento, presented at the Wawel exhibition. “The Annunciation”, a painting that Karol Lanckoroński bought as a work by Fra Angelico in 1893, is currently in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. The third work is an image of Saint Ansan, a martyr living in the time of Emperor Diocletian, one of the patrons of Siena. In the collection of the Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi from Ferrara, it is considered a work of Bartolomeo di David, a Sienese artist active at the beginning of the 16th century.
The exhibition is available from October 25, 2024 to February 2, 2025.
