#national museum of warsaw

[galleryofart]

Clio. Muse of History

Artist: Johannes Moreelse (Dutch, after 1602–1634)

Date: 1617-1634

Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on panel

Collection: National Museum, Warsaw, Poland

Description

"Clio. Muse of History" is a painting by Johannes Moreelse, depicting the Greek muse of history, Clio, who is often portrayed with writing implements, signifying her role in recording historical events; this painting is considered a classic example of Baroque art, showcasing Clio as a woman surrounded by objects associated with preserving historical memory like busts and reliefs.

[oncanvas]

Falling Star, Witold Pruszkowski, 1884

Oil on canvas 168 x 132 cm (66.14 x 51.97 in.) National Museum, Warsaw, Poland

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Self-Portrait in a Spanish Costume Artist: Edward Okuń (Polish, 1872-1945) Date: 1911 Genre: portraiture Medium: oil on canvas Location: National Museum in Warsaw

[thearchaicsmile]

A black figure kalpis depicting the poet Sappho (ΦΣΑΦΟ) holding a barbiton, an ancient stringed instrument similar to a lyre. Attributed to the eponymous Sappho Painter, active in Attica c. 510 to 490 BC.

🏛️: National Museum, Warsaw

[lubentina]

Edward Okuń (Polish, 1872-1945)

Self-portrait with a Sicilian woman – Pomegranates, 1913. National Museum in Warsaw

oil on canvas

[vintage-ukraine]

Interior of The St.Sophia`s Cathedral in Kyiv by Mykhailo Sazhyn, 1854

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Demons in the Book of the Dead of Bakay.

When: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

Where: National Museum, Warsaw

[coeus-reincarnate]

Sunday at the mine (Rest at the mine) by Jacek Malczewski , at the National Museum in Warsaw.

Source

[lilithlikesart]

Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki - Dirce chrześcijańska (Christianskaja Dirceja v cirke Nerona; Christian dirce in the Circus of Nero), 1897, Warsaw National Museum

Signature, date and location: H.SIEMIRADZKI PINX. A.D.MDCCCXCVII / .ROMA.

The painting was most probably inspired with the work of Histoire des origines du christianisme, Volume IV Antichrist by French historian and philosopher Ernest Renan.

[oncanvas]

Uniate Woman, Witold Pruszkowski, 1888

Oil on canvas 121 x 172 cm (47.64 x 67.72 in.) National Museum, Warsaw, Poland

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Saint Peter in Prayer Artist: Matthias Stom (Dutch or Flemish [active in Italy], fl. 1615-1649) Date: between 1633 and 1640 Genre: religious art (Christianity) Movement: Caravaggism; Tenebrism Period: Baroque Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 104 cm (40.9 in) high x 128.5 cm (50.5 in) wide Location: National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

[unapologeticmelancholy]

📷 @unapologeticmelancholy

📍 The National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

I took myself out on a museum date the other day. It was splendid. ♡

I will need to go back multiple times to see all the exhibitions, but I was eager to start with collections of objects of everyday use.

I take great interest in everyday objects from times past - I simply love imagining the daily lives the people who were here before us.

How on a hopefully sunny afternoon, there was a person who carried one of these pocket sundials (so we were punctual slaves to the dominion of time even before the popularization of pocket watches after all!) on them when out and about to make sure they're not late for an important meeting.

How a certain family gathered around a table every day and talked or argued while they dined on these fine plates.

How one night, a Transylvanian noblewoman decided which one of her beautiful brooches to wear to a ball this time (this one was a nice bonus for me, I've just finished reading Dracula. I wonder if one of his un-dead brides wore such a brooch?)

I especially enjoyed the way the exhibition was divided into three sections based on wealth and social class. In one room I could let my imagination take me to a wealthy merchant's townhouse, the other - an aristocrat's estate out in the country.

You may think me silly for being enchanted trivial little things such as brooches and teaspoons, but take a closer look yourself. You may be surprised how magical you might find them ✨

[lubentina]

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (Polish, 1852 – 1916)

Portret Heleny Marcello-Palińskiej (portrait of Helena Marcello-Palińska), 1880. Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (national museum warsaw)

oil painting

[vizuart]

[colderthanthemoon]

Do 1 września 1939 najcenniejsze dzieła Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie zostały ukryte. Pracownicy muzeum prowadzili dokładny spis dzieł. W 1943 roku w związku ze zbliżającym się frontem wschodnim częśc dzieł zdeponowanych wcześniej na Wawelu zostało wywiozionych w głąb Rzeszy. W 1944 po wybuchu Powstania Warszawskiego, gmach Muzeum został przejęty przez niemieckie oddziały SS - muzeum poniosło największe straty.

Straty wojenne Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie szacuje się na około 12 tysięcy obiektów, czyli 10% przedwojennych zbiorów.

W ostatnich latach do zbiorów powróciło ponad 500 dzieł, jednak ogromna liczba obiektów wciąż czeka na odzyskanie.

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Prior to September 1, 1939, the National Museum in Warsaw kept its most valuable works hidden, with the museum staff keeping detailed inventories. As the eastern front approached in 1943, some of the works that had been previously deposited at Wawel were transported deeper into the Reich. When the Warsaw Uprising broke out in 1944, German SS troops took over the museum building, resulting in the greatest losses suffered by the museum.

It is estimated that the National Museum in Warsaw lost around 12,000 objects during the war, which equates to 10% of its pre-war collection.

Although the collection has seen the return of over 500 works in recent years, a significant number of objects still await recovery.

[dwellerinthelibrary]

2009_0812_135914AA Budapest (by Hans Ollermann)

An anonymous Amduat papyrus, dating to the 21st Dynasty. At the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.

[An Egyptian papyrus, brown, with a black and red illustration of the solar barque. The prow is a snake looking back at the sun in the barque. The sun sits on a red base, and contains an eye of Horus. Two Maat feathers stand in front of it. The barque sits on the hieroglyph for "sky", beneath which Apophis is drawn with a thick black coiling line.]