In this section or menu item, we invite the visitor for a walk through the picture gallery and for a journey: we are going to view the pictures and their accompanying texts in a sequence that corresponds to an imaginary journey through the landscapes depicted. We have divided the route into 18 sections, and also suggest a certain sequence of pictures within each leg. Thus, e.g., first we have a look at a ruined castle from a distance, then we approach it, walk around it, and eventually enter the area within the walls. Accordingly, we have assigned serial numbers to the legs as well as to the individual pictures within the legs.
You may want to classify and view the pictures in a different way and sequence: give appropriate search conditions to choose some of the pictures; or, you may select a leg and the pictures assigned to it by clicking on one of the maps (see below).
To walk through the Gallery or some parts of it, follow this operating sequence:
Click on the menu item "Gallery": the "List of Legs" is displayed with the numbers and names of the legs and the roman numeral of the related map.
Click on the menu item "Gallery": the "List of Legs" is displayed with the numbers and names of the legs and the roman numeral of the related map.
Select an item from the List of Pictures by clicking on the image: you get to the "Picture and its Description" window. Here the picture is displayed in a larger size and with more data, i.e., those mentioned above, and the inscriptions on the watercolour and on its backing, the signature by the artist (only on two of the pictures), and finally, the picture or sketch and inscriptions on the verso if relevant. Following these data, in a new line, the number of the map is given where the landscape: the river, mountain, town etc. depicted can be located. Then a short description of the subject follows, and the history and sights of the landscape, the town, village or castle in addition, with references to the Bibliography. For the sake of usability, this additional information has been given on a separate page for about two thirds of the items. (This solution was preferred if the text seemed somewhat lengthy, or included more topics, or was repeated at several pictures.)
Click on the word "More…" in the last line of the Picture and its Description window in order to display the Additional text. The Back button of the browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer or other) brings you back to the Picture and its Description window.
Click on the image in the Picture and its Description window: the picture is displayed in a full window, without accompanying text. You can change the size (in predefined percents) of the image, adjust its size vertically or horizontally to the window, and choose the shade of the background (white, grey, black). You get back to the Picture and its Description window by clicking on the Close button.
To view the sketch or watercolour on the verso (back), click on the word "Verso:" among the data of the item. The verso image, too, can be displayed in the full window. (Some of the verso sketches, which seemed to be too faint, have not been reproduced.)
Beside the Picture and its Description window, in the left half of the screen, the List of Pictures remains visible, so that you can choose another item of it as described in paragraph 3. above.
The data of the pictures are given according to the usual forms in gallery and exhibition catalogues, with conventional abbreviations. (See the list of Abbreviations.)
Equivalent geographical names in different languages are usually given at their first occurrence. Language equivalents of more important names are listed under menu item "Place-names". A short glossary of common nouns in Slovakian and Polish geographical names is given in menu item "Abbreviations".
Heights of peaks and lakes were taken from different books and maps, and their sources could not be established in all cases. Most of the data originated from the 1896-1897 maps of the military institute in Vienna and were measured from the Adriatic Sea; newer Slovakian and Polish measurements are based on the level of the Baltic Sea (see Komarnicki).