BS, Poland, Alexander Jagiellon, Lithuania, Teutonic Order, 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 nomber 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. Alexander Jagiellon, 1461 - 1506 Alexander Jagiellon (Polish: Aleksander Jagiellończyk; Lithuanian: Aleksandras; 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, was the fourth son of Kazimierz IV Jagiellon. He was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania on the death of his father (1492), and King of Poland on the death of his brother Jan I Olbracht (1501). av. The figure of the Polish-Lithuanian King Alexander, the dates 1501 - 1506 rv. The church of St. Anna in Vilno diameter - 70 mm (2 ¾ “) weight – 144.20 gr, (5.09 oz) metal – bronze, silver plated Alexander Alexander’s shortage of funds immediately made him subservient to the Polish Senate and nobility (szlachta), who deprived him of control of the mint (then one of the most lucrative sources of revenue for the Polish kings), curtailed his prerogatives, and generally endeavored to reduce him to a subordinate position. For want of funds, Alexander was unable to resist the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights or prevent Grand Duke of Muscovy Ivan III from ravaging Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Tatars. The most the King could do was to garrison Smolensk and other strongholds and employ his wife Helena, the Tsar's daughter, to mediate a truce between his father-in-law and himself after the disastrous Battle of Vedrosha (1500). In the terms of the truce, Lithuania had to surrennder about a third of its territory to the nascent expansionist Russian state. During his reign, Poland suffered much humiliation at the hands of her subject principality, Moldavia. Only the death of Stephen, the great hospodar of Moldavia, enabled Poland still to hold her own on the Danube River; while the liberality of Pope Julius II, who issued no fewer than 29 bulls in favor of Poland and granted Alexander Peter's Pence and other financial help, enabled him to restrain somewhat the arrogance of the Teutonic Order. Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michał Gliński, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck (August 5, 1506), news of which was brought to Aleksander on his deathbed in Vilnius. It is important to note that Alexander Jagellon was the last known ruler of the Jagiellon dynasty to have maintained the family's ancestral Lithuanian language. From his death, Polish became the sole language of the family, thus fully Polonizing the Jagiellon family. Ewa Olszewska-Borys (the winner of the prestigious J. Sanford Saltus 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 Wlodzimiers 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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