Costume Plates from

Polish Costume 1200-1795 by Jan Matejko (Ubiory w Polsce 1200-1795)

Part "SCA" - Costumes from 1380-1575

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1333-1434 nobles

1333-1434 Peasants and Jews

1333-1434 Military

1333-1434 Magnates 

            Right, detail of Lady Borkowa, tomb at Franciscan Church, Krakow

1333-1434 Craftsmen and Civil Servants

1,2 builders, masons;  3 butcher

4 executioner;  5 county officer; 6 his man; 7,8 town trumpeters/criers

1333-1434 Townsfolk

1447-1492 Court (Kazimier Jagello and Elzbiet of Innsbruck)

1447-1492 Clergy

1447-1492 Magnates

1447-1492 Guildsmen  

Figures 1,2 Woodworkers From Codex of Baltazar Behem;

3,6 Minister and executioner, painting by Wita Stwosz

4 Traveling craftsman (specifically a leatherworker) From Codex of Baltazar Behem;

5 Clerk, by Albrecht Durer in a triptych of Saint Jana Chrzciciela in the Church of Saint Floriana in Krakow

7 Municipal Beadle

1447-1492 Nobles

1447-1492 Peasants and Jews

1447-1492 Professors

1447-1492 Soldiers

1447-1492 Townsfolk

1507-1548 Guildsmen 

Figures 1 2 3 4 5 6 From Codex of Baltazar Behem; 2: trader; 3 bowyer; 4 seamstress;                     Right-Details From Codex of Baltazar Behem

7,8 executioner and lantern-bearer from a painting Suesa Norymberczyka in the Church of our Lady Mary in Crakow.

1507-1548 Magnates

1507-1548 Clergy

1507-1548 Nobles

1507-1548 Peasants

1507-1548 Professors

1507-1548 Military

    Figures 1 2 4 6 7 8 Court painting Battle of Orszan

    Figure 3 Tomb of Krzystof Szydlowiecki

    Figure 5 Surviving armor from the 16th C.                                         

1507-1548 Townsfolk

             right, Zofia of Bethmanow Bonerowa, tomb of Mariack Church, Krakow.

1548-1572 Court

1548-1572 Clergy

                        right, magnates from about 1560

1548-1572 Guildsmen

1,2,3 Musicians from a folk art piece

4 Falconeer from an engraving

5. Trader, from an engraving

6 Boy with drum, Mucskow woodcarving

7 Hunter with firelock, villa woodcarving

1548-1572 Peasants

1548-1572 Nobles

Figures 1,2,4,10,11,12 wood carvings in the Assembly hall of Lubel

3 Tomb of Krzystof Szydlowiecki

5,8,9, Wood carvings in Muczkow

6 portrait of Macieja Stryjkowski

7 girl of Padniewski Herb  from the tombs of the Dominican monastery in Krakow (detail right).

1548-1572 Soldiers

1-7 from Engraving of battle of Uwan between the Commonwealth and Moscow.  the figures are likely Lithuanian.  6,7 Trumpeter and drummer

4 from Kroniki Swiata (World Chronicle) by Marcin Bielski

8 Royal Halberdier, painting illustrating the funeral of Zygmunt August 

                Right, illustration of events of treaty signing with Zygmunt August

1548-1572 Professors

1548-1572 Townsmen

figure 1. from Tomb in Franciscan Church in Krakow (detail right)

Matejko Costume Plates - 1575 -1635