This week, the Palace of the Grand Dukes is hosting museum professionals from three leading Ukrainian institutions: the Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery, the Lviv Historical Museum and the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.
Can a love story be captured in a work of art small enough to fit in the palms of your hands? A new international exhibition at the Palace of the Grand Dukes invites visitors to discover an extraordinary 16th-century painting featuring the two wives of Sigismund Augustus, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland – Elizabeth of Habsburg and Barbara Radziwiłł.
Nearly 350 years ago, it stood outside the walls of Vienna in the Ottoman military camp. Following the decisive Battle of Vienna in 1683, it became a war trophy and is today regarded as one of the most precious objects in the collections of Wawel Royal Castle.