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The Jagiellonian tapestries (Polish: Arrasy wawelskie), are a collection of tapestries woven in the Netherlands and Flanders, which originally consisted of 365 pieces assembled by the Jagiellons to decorate the interiors of the royal Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland. The collection is also collectively known as the Wawel Arrasses, as the majority of the preserved fabrics are in the possession of the Wawel Castle Museum and the French city of Arras, which was once a manufacturing centre of this kind of wall decoration in the beginning of the 16th century. The works became state property of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland according to the will of Sigismund II Augustus.00The 16th-century audience was impressed with the tapestries? sizes and the sparkle of gold and silver threads. The contemporary audience standing before biblical tapestries will discern, among other things, references to the masters of the Italian Renaissance? Raphael and Michelangelo. Before us, there are 137 royal tapestries captivating with their exquisite craftsmanship.00Among them are 19 monumental figurative fabrics depicting scenes from the Book of Genesis (Paradise Bliss? 189 in x 336 in, Animals Entering the Ark? 187 in x 312 in, The Building of the Tower of Babel? 190 in x 320 in), 44 verdures depicting landscapes and animal scenes (An Otter with a Fish in its Mouth and Fantastic Reptiles, A Unicorn-Giraffe and a Lynx, Stork and rabbits), 42 armorial tapestries (a grotesque with coats of arms of Poland and Lithuania and the figure of Ceres) and also small furniture upholstery and fabrics for decorating window recesses. Visitors did not have an opportunity to see many of these before.00Exhibition: Wawel Royal Castle, Cracow, Poland (18.03. - 31.10.2021).