Applied history, museology and cultural heritage Department, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, Lviv, S. Bandery street 12

Abstract

The coat of arms on a noble portrait serves as an important tool for the identification of people on the portraits. Taking into account this circumstance in future will allow to give more accurate information about the persons depicted on portraits in the collection of the Lviv Historical Museum, most of which are not yet identified or the identification is mistaken or hypothetical.

Keywords

coat of arms

noble portrait

nobility

Lviv Historical Museum

References

[1] Yakushchenko G. Catalog of the painting collection of the Lviv Historical Museum. – Lviv, 1987. – 109 pp.

[2] Ovsiychuk V. Ukrainian art of the XIV – the first half of the XVII century. – Kyiv, 1985. – 168 pp.

[3] Tobiasz M. Szlachta i możnowładztwo w dawnej Polsce. – Kraków, 1945. – 194 s.

The noble coat of arms on a female portrait of the 17th – early 20th centuries in the collection of the Lviv Historical Museum