BS, Poland, King John II Casimir Vasa, Lithuania, Sweden, Olszewska-Borys

Description: This medal is a part of my Polish medals collection Visit my page with the offers, please. You will find many interesting items related to this subject. If you are interested in other medals, related to this subject, click here, please. Poland; Rulers Medieval Motives Historic Battles Poland; History Teutonic Order; Deutscher Orden The Royal Series of Ewa Olszewska-Borys Artist – Ewa Olszewska Borys (the winner of the prestigious Saltus Award), FIDEM- member since 1969, Vice-President of FIDEM (1987-2000) That series consists of 43 medals; I can offer the complete Royal Series. If you are interested, please, contact me. The Royal Series is represented in the collection of the BRITISH MUSEUM and the VATICAN MUSEUM. The “Royal Series” designed by Ewa Olszewska-Borys was emitted in 1985-2003 upon the initiative of the Koszalin Branch of the Polish Numismatic Society. The series is composed of 43 medals (70 mm), struck in tombac, silver-plated and patina versions, and in finest silver. The number of some of the medals from the series exceeded 3000 copies although some have been minted in very low number and they are still sought by collectors. The obverses of the medals depicting the royal portraits were based on the “Gallery of Kings and Dukes” drawn by Jan Matejko, the great Polish nineteenth-century historical painter. These portraits appear in an illusive, spatial relief, typical for the author. An equally spatial treatment, symptomatic for sculpture, was applied in the case of architecture, visible on the reverses, usually sacral and historically associated with a given ruler or originating from the time of his reign. Ewa Olszewska-Borys spent eighteen years working on a royal portrait gallery, executing successively two or three medals annually. The series is artistically cohesive and authentic owing to the fact that was created in a natural manner, parallel to the other works of the author, and in accordance with her own sculpture vision, stemming from a perception of space, included into the arrangement of forms and endowed with a concrete, material shape. King John II Casimir, 1609 - 1672 John II Casimir (Polish: Jan II Kazimierz), known in German as Johann Kasimir (March 22, 1609 – December 6, 1672), was King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Duke of Opole in Silesia. His parents were (Sigismund III Vasa, 1566-1632) and Constance of Austria Habsburg (1588-1631). av. The figure of the king John II Casimir, the dates 1648 - 1668 rv. The Monastery of the Cameldolite order on the Wigry Lake, foundation of the king diameter - 70 mm (2 ¾ “) weight – 144.30 gr, (5.09 oz) metal – bronze, silver plated John Casimir for most of his life remained in the shadow of his brother, Władysław IV Waza. He had few friends among the Polish nobility (szlachta), as he openly sympathized with Austria and showed disregard and contempt for Polish culture. Unfriendly, secretive, dividing his time between lavish partying and religious contemplation, and disliking politics, he did not have a strong power base nor influence at the Polish court. He did display talent as a military commander, showing his abilities in the Smolensk War against Muscovy (1633). In 1641 John Casimir decided to become a Jesuit. In 1642 he again left the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, accompanying his sister to Germany. In 1643 he joined the Jesuits, against vocal opposition from King Władysław, causing a diplomatic rift between the Commonwealth and the Pope. John Casimir was made a cardinal, but in December 1646, finding himself unsuited to ecclesiastical life, he returned to Poland. In October 1647 he resigned as cardinal to stand in elections for the Polish throne. He attempted to gain the support of the Habsburgs and marry an Austrian princess. In 1648 John Casimir succeeded to the Polish throne. The reign of the last of the Vasas in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth would be dominated by war with Sweden ("The Deluge"), the scene for which had been set by the Commonwealth's two previous Vasa kings. During the Deluge, nearly all of Poland was captured by the Swedes, who, though unable to retain most of their conquests and forced to retreat, had fairly devastated the entire country. In 1660 John II Casimir was forced to renounce his claim to the Swedish throne and acknowledge Swedish sovereignty over Livonia and the city of Riga. On September 16, 1668, John II Casimir abdicated the Polish-Lithuanian throne, and returned to France, where he joined the Jesuits and became abbot of St. Martin's monastery in Nevers. He died in 1672. The artist is Ewa Olszewska-Borys (the winner of the prestigious J. Sanford Saltus Award award) Graduated in sculpture from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and in medal engraving from the Ecole des Beaux- Arts in Paris. Has received the Wlodzimierz Pietrzak Artistic Award (Warsaw, 1989), the J. Sanford Saltus Award for Signal Achievements in the Arts of the Medal (New York, 1993). FIDEM- member since 1969 You can see this medal on her webpage.http://www.olszewska-borys.artmedal.net/royal_series.html From the interview with the artist “It was a unique adventure. In 1997, the secretary to Paola, the Queen of Belgians, addressed several artists with the request to submit medals to celebrate Her Majesty's sixtieth birthday. The Queen chose my medal and, pleased with my work, expressed the wish to see me. She suggested me spending a weekend at Saint-Tropez. Regrettably I was unable to go for family reasons. I was convinced the Queen would forget about me, but the invitation was resumed several months later. I went to Brussels and was received by the Queen at a long private audience, as long as an hour (apparently an unprecedented lengthy in the Royal palace. Amiably straightforward, the Queen spoke about the art of the medal with expertness and showed much interest in my work. In a letter received later on, Her Majesty thanked me for the medal made for her.”

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