Exhibition of photographs of Christoph Maucher's casket from the collection of the Castle Museum in Malbork.
The casket, created in Gdańsk around 1700, is one of the greatest modern works of amber. This outstanding work is actually small: 30 x 40 x 40 cm. The casket is decorated with love themes depicted in mythological scenes, as well as iconographic motifs related to Gdańsk, which are an affirmation of life, wealth, prosperity and strength of this city. This year, the Museum in Malbork made the richly decorated interior of the casket and the underside of the lid available to visitors for the first time. Numerous details were shown, some previously undiscovered, others invisible on a daily basis. Many of them are only a few millimeters long. Large-format photographs by Lech Zdrojewski, taken at 20-50 times magnification, show Maucher's great skill and in a painterly way present baroque compositions full of dynamics and expression, rich in their forms.
