Royal Castle – Representation Royal Chambers

The main exhibition of the castle’s interior consists of several rooms on the ground floor, and above all representative halls on the second floor of the palace.
In three rooms on the ground floor apartment forming wielkorządców Krakow, preserved Renaissance wooden ceilings. Stone portals were partially reconstructed in the interwar period, the original, Renaissance, door frames and decorate the hall in the stairwell of Deputies, linking the ground floor with private royal apartments on the first floor and second floor rooms.

Second floor of the palace in the north and the east wing houses classrooms representation. The original floors were destroyed in the fire of the castle in 1702 and during the Austrian occupation, the early nineteenth century. In three rooms, stairs to the south of the Envoys, preserved in large parts of the Renaissance friezes wall (completed before World War II), and the great hall ceiling Deputies called an astonishing 30 carved human heads. The most valuable part of the Renaissance exhibition rooms, the only remaining from their original design, are tapestries, woven in Brussels in order of Sigismund Augustus in 3 quarter of the sixteenth century, with biblical themes, motifs, or the grotesque and the coats of arms of Polish and Lithuanian. There are also high artistic value, images, and Italian furniture, mostly Tuscan, from the sixteenth century and portraits of Polish monarchs.

Interior in the north wing, after a fire in 1595, were renewed at the request of Sigismund III Vasa by the architect and painter John Trevano Tommaso Dolabella. Senators escaped the fire hall, the largest in the castle, now completely hung arrasami. In other interiors preserved marble portals and found fire in the early Roman Baroque style, and stucco vaulting, including in the royal chapel. Pseudobarokowe ceilings, from the interwar period, ceilings are filled with well-known and highly regarded contemporary Polish painters – colorists, and walls covered cordovans of the eighteenth century, from the castle of King Augustus III in Moritzburg near Dresden. The tower, called. Sigismund III, is known. Dutch Cabinet, with paintings of Dutch schools. The equipment of this part of the castle is dominated by portraits of Polish kings and their family members and Polish historical paintings.