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Good bye Giedymin
Giedymin found also interest on exploring other material.
Here is a jewelery collection made through the stone relief.
He used to pick up amber on the beach when walking
with his parents. The first object he made out of amber
was a necklace for his mother at the age of 8 years old.
Giedymin Jablonski secret box from his childhood.
Illustration of amber workshop.
Amber in science, Microscopic plants.
The amber trap.
Nathanael Sendel's Historia succinorum corpora aliena,
Leipzin, 1742.
Gedymin Jablonski.
Candle holder, the object was actually used only
as decoration because amber burn.
sculpted meerschaun from the 19th and 20th century.
Rare dated architectonic amber altar on a wooden
framework decorated with ivory sculptures
and reliefs from Gdansk. 1687
Casket from the workshop of Michel Redlin. 1680
Viking hoard.
Neolithic Antromorphic figure.
Collection of the Geological and Paleontological institute
and Museum of the University of Göttingen, Germany.
Tears of God
Greek Myth of Phaeton
Phaeton, the son of Phoebus Apollo the Sun God asked his father
to drive the Sun Chariot pulled by wild horses. For a time his travels went well,
then suddenly the horses bolted and the chariot came to close
to the Earth, setting it ablaze. This was said to be the origin of volcanoes.
The entire Earth was blazing, the forests burned and the land parched.
The heat was so great that the peoples of Africa were burned black.
The God Zeus, in an gesture to save the earth, struck Phaeton dead with
a lightning bolt. Phaeton's body fell into the River Eridanus.
The nymphs of the stream pulled his body from the stream and buried him on
the river bank. After a time his three sisters, the Heliades (aka Electrides),
came in search of the grave. When they found it,
they vowed to stay with their dead brother and wept day and night.
Their wasting bodies took root and became covered with the bark
of the surrounding trees. Their arms turned to branches and eventually,
the three were transformed into trees. Their tears
continued to flow, and as they hardened in the sun, turned to amber.
Garden around the castle.
Master Tomb.
Heating system.
The Summer Refectory.
The Reception Room.
One of the 5 chapels, which is under renovation debate.
Should it be or not restored?
The Great Refectory interior, a beautiful aquatint by Friedrich Frick
from 1799 according to Friedeich's drawing from1794.
The Castle in Malbork is the largest castle in the world by area.
It was built in Prussia by the Teutonic Knights,
a German Roman Catholic religious order of crusaders.
Malbork Castle.
The curator Anna Sobeckt of the Amber collection had
the courtesy and kindness to be our guide.
