Matejko, Jan: Prussian homage, 1882

Matejko, Jan: Prussian homage, 1882

 

Prussian homage, 1882
oil, canvas, 388 x 785 cm;
National Museum in Krakow

10 April 1525 r. a ceremonial act took place at the Market Square in Krakow: the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, a
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Matejko, Jan: Battle of Grunwald

Matejko, Jan: Battle of Grunwald

 

15 July 1410 a battle was fought on the fields near Grunwald in the year, w której zjednoczone wojska polskie i litewsko-ruskie dowodzone przez króla polskiego Władysława Jagiełłę odniosły świetne zwycięstwo nad armią
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Matejko, Jan: Copernicus

Matejko, Jan: Copernicus

 

Copernicus, 1873
oil, canvas, 322 x 545 cm;
Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Matejko's vision of Nicolaus Copernicus, based on the study of the astronomer's portraits, exact and faithful as regards the external resemblance of the face, however, it has remarkably individual features. Image
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Matejko, Jan: Batory near Pskov

Matejko, Jan: Batory near Pskov

 

Batory near Pskov, 1872
oil, canvas, 322 x 545 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw

An event from the Polish-Moscow war for Livonia, conducted in the years 1578-1582 by Stefan Batory, it has become the subject of the painting, which “belongs to
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Matejko, Jan: Regent

Matejko, Jan: Regent

 

Regent, 1866
oil, canvas, 282 x 487 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw
The shameful partition system, under which Prussia, Russia and Austria divided part of the Polish lands, was approved by the Polish Sejm, gathered at the Warsaw Castle
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Matejko, Jan: Complaint's sermon

Matejko, Jan: Complaint's sermon

 

Complaint's sermon, 1864
oil, canvas, 224 x 397 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw
“No Pole has painted anything like it” – wrote Fr. Sermon of Complaints one of the critics (Stanisław Tarnowski). Substantially, in this work of only 26 years old
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Matejko Jan

Matejko Jan (ur. 1836 Cracow, zm. 1893 Cracow).
Jan Matejko studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow headed by Stattler and Łuszczkiewicz; he stayed briefly in Munich with Herman Anschutz and in Vienna with Christian Ruben. For a year 1860 he lived
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Maszkowski Marceli

Maszkowski Marceli (ur. 1837 Lviv, zm. 1862 Lviv).
His father, Jan Maszkowski, taught him painting, then he studied at the Academy of Vienna, w 1857-59 at the Munich Academy with W.. Kaulbacha i K. Pilotyego. Later he stayed in Leipzig and Dresden, where he drew illustrations for
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Maszkowski Jan

Maszkowski Jan (ur. 1793 Chorostków, zm. 1865 Barszczowice near. Lviv).
From 1815 studied painting at the Vienna Academy with H.. Frugera and J. Ch. Lampi and in Rome. He returned to Lviv in 1825. W 1835-44 taught drawing at the State Academy
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