Warsaw Museums

Trip Start Jun 22, 2008
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Trip End Jul 03, 2008


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Flag of Poland  , Central Poland,
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

It is Wednesday morning and we have decided that we would visit the National Museum and the Polish Army Museum this morning before we head out to Czestochowa.  Dad and Paul have opted for the Polish Army Museum and David and I decide to go to the National Museum.  They are right next door to each other which makes it easy.  We tried to visit the National Museum yesterday afternoon,  but it is closed on Tuesdays and since we got to the Polish Army Museum right before 4pm,  we were told that it closed at 4pm,  so we missed that too. 
No pictures were allowed in the Polish Army Museum, but they were in the National Musem, so most of these pictures are from there,  although I took a few outside of the Army Museum.
I am struck by the historical Polish religious art.  The sculptures are in wood, in contrast to the renaissance stone works of Italian origin.  The wood sculptures have a distinctive  earthy feel and appeal to them, more dramatic than the Michaelangelo versions of the Pieta, for instance.  The emotions on the faces are more intense.  The gore is also more in your face.  There are also great examples of 13th and 14th century "tryptic" altar pieces, but here again most with wood carving figures rather than paintings. 
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