A Recently Discovered Portrait of Ladislas Vasa as the Pretender to the Muscovite Throne (ca. 1609) in the Collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

The subject of this study is an analysis of a unique engraving preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France depicting Prince Ladislas Vasa (1595–1648) as pretender to the Muscovite throne. It is here proposed that the print was probably executed c. 1611 on the order of Marshal Mikołaj Wolski,...

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Published in:Biuletyn Historii Sztuki
Main Author: Jacek Żukowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2025-10-01
Subjects:
Ladislas Vasa (Ladislas IV Vasa)
Sigismund III Vasa
Mikołaj Wolski
Antonio Tempesta
Jacopo Lauro
Wolfgang Kilian
Online Access:https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/bhs/article/view/1696
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Summary:The subject of this study is an analysis of a unique engraving preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France depicting Prince Ladislas Vasa (1595–1648) as pretender to the Muscovite throne. It is here proposed that the print was probably executed c. 1611 on the order of Marshal Mikołaj Wolski, the king’s envoy to Rome. The author endeavours to reconstruct the ideological meaning of the print in the context of the so-called Muscovite iconography of Ladislas.
ISSN:0006-3967
2719-4612

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