Polyptych of Lusina information

Polyptych of Lusina
Polyptych of Lusina
Artist	unknown artists from Małopolska
Year	1505-1510
Medium	polychrome lime timber, tempera, oil, gold, silver
Dimensions	68-69 cm × 184 cm (27–27 in × 72 in)
Condition	lost - fragments of the polyptych entered into the register of war losses after World War II
Location	National Museum in Kraków, Kraków

The Polyptych of Lusina (Polish: Poliptyk z Lusiny, German: Polyptychon aus Lusina), late-Gothic retable, polyptych embellished with paintings and bas-reliefs, created at an unknown workshop in all likelihood located in Lesser Poland (or Galicia), c. 1510.^[1] The retable originally featured three views, visible upon opening successive pairs of wings. Mühlmann’s Office requisitioned inner wings and polyptych shrine cabinet in 1940, the artwork having been deposited with the National Museum in Kraków.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] After World War II, the Museum recovered the wings only, the main shrine cabinet with its “Holy Family” bas-relief and bas-relief wing section depicting a scene from the “The Legend of Saint Theophilus of Adana” missing. Both retable sections have been listed in the “Catalogue of Wartime Losses” as No. 409.^[6]

^ Gadomski, Jerzy (1995). Gotyckie malarstwo tablicowe Małopolski: 1500-1540 (in Polish). Kraków: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. p. 69.
^ Bilik, Halina. "Składnica (składnice) zagrabionych i przemieszczanych dóbr kultury na Wawelu". Zamek Królewski na Wawelu (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-03-24.
^ Blewett, Morwenna (2016). "Institutional Restorers, Cultural Plunder and New Collections". Museen im Nationalsozialismus: Akteure - Orte - Politik (in German). p. 152.
^ Blewett, Morwenna (2008). "Conservation and its role: the Nazi looting machine and the Goering collection". ICOM Committee for Conservation 15th Triennial Meeting New Delhi India 22-26 September 2008. Allied Publishers. pp. 1016–1017.
^ Blewett, Morwenna (2007). "Restoring for the Reich : Commercial and Institutional Restorers in Service of the Nazi Kleptocracy". Art Antiquity and Law. 12 (1): 24–27 – via Academia.
^ "Fragments of the Lusina polyptych". The division for looted art. Retrieved 2024-03-24.

[1] Gadomski, Jerzy (1995). Gotyckie malarstwo tablicowe Małopolski: 1500-1540 (in Polish). Kraków: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. p. 69.

[2] Bilik, Halina. "Składnica (składnice) zagrabionych i przemieszczanych dóbr kultury na Wawelu". Zamek Królewski na Wawelu (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-03-24.

[3] Blewett, Morwenna (2016). "Institutional Restorers, Cultural Plunder and New Collections". Museen im Nationalsozialismus: Akteure - Orte - Politik (in German). p. 152.

[4] Blewett, Morwenna (2008). "Conservation and its role: the Nazi looting machine and the Goering collection". ICOM Committee for Conservation 15th Triennial Meeting New Delhi India 22-26 September 2008. Allied Publishers. pp. 1016–1017.

[5] Blewett, Morwenna (2007). "Restoring for the Reich : Commercial and Institutional Restorers in Service of the Nazi Kleptocracy". Art Antiquity and Law. 12 (1): 24–27 – via Academia.

[6] "Fragments of the Lusina polyptych". The division for looted art. Retrieved 2024-03-24.