Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Carpathian Gothic exhibition

 In Cracow (where I happen to be quite often) recently there was an exhibition "Gothic in Carpathian Mountains". There were works from Slovakia and Hungary, although most exhibits were from Polish museums. Some had some Gothic writing on them. Actually I have seen some of the pictures earlier in some other museum in Cracow (for example "Dapifer Cracoviensis"). But some I have not seen before and I reproduce them here.

I realise that an exhibition will not be there forever, but still I found it interesting and I decided to publish it here. I am sure when the exibition is not there anymore, you can find those pictures (and the frames, where the wrting is) in other Polish museums, very likely in Cracow. The pictures are:

Epitaph of Jan of Ujazd, painted around 1450

Madonna Konopków, painted in the 15th century,

Triptich from Opatówek, painted around 1460