Krakow carpet

The Krakow Carpet (or Krakow-Paris Carpet ) is a 16th century masterpiece of Persian carpet weaving. One half is shown today in the State Art Collections of the Kraków Royal Castle on the Wawel , the other, better preserved, in the Louvre Museum in Paris .

The carpet was commissioned by the Persian Shah Tahmasp I at the beginning of the 16th century . Via Turkey he came - still as a whole - to Vienna, from where he received it as a trophy from the Turkish Wars and the relief of Vienna in 1683 under the Polish King Jan III. Sobieski came to Krakow.

Web links

• Documentation by Valéry Gaillard and Elisabeth Kiledjian in the ARTE series Treasures of Islam .
• Museums Krakow .