Royal Chambers

		The Royal Chambers form the main part of the exhibition in the Wawel Castle. It is an attempt at recreating the state of the royal residence in the 16th and in the early 17th century. Today the exhibition comprises three rooms on the ground floor - the former dwelling of the governor of the castle - four rooms of the royal private apartments on the first floor, and the rooms on the second floor, the so-called piano nobile. Three second-floor rooms have retained their Renaissance friezes painted, among other artists, by Hans Dⁿrer and Antoni of Wroc│aw, representing a tournament, a military review, and the so-called Tabula Cebetis, or an allegorical picture of the life of man, based on a text written by the ancient philosopher Kebes. Particularly valuable are the Gothic-Renaissance architraves . The ceiling of the so-called Audience Hall is decorated with thirty polychromed heads carved in wood around 1540 by Sebastian Tauerbach. The tapestry collection of Sigismund Augustus is the most precious group of museum objects. There are also two remarkable groups - of high-quality Italian Renaissance furniture and of historical, mainly royal, portraits. The Wawel picture collection was immensely augmented in 1994 thanks to the donation of over 80 works of Italian painting from the family possessions of the Counts Lanckoro±ski.
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