Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
They also note that Matejko usually dedicated two years to paintings of that size; this one was completed in less than a year, during a period in which Matejko was working on other projects and suffering from stress and depression. [16] Matejko himself was not fond of the 18th century and the Polish Enlightenment, remarking that he "would ...
Matejko was born on 24 June 1838, in the Free City of Kraków. [2] His father, Franciszek Ksawery Matejko (Czech: František Xaver Matějka) (born 1789 or 13 January 1793, died 26 October 1860), a Czech from the village of Roudnice, was a graduate of the Hradec Králové school who later became a tutor and music teacher. [2]
Stańczyk (Full title: Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk, Polish: Stańczyk w czasie balu na dworze królowej Bony wobec straconego Smoleńska) is a painting by Jan Matejko finished in 1862. This painting was acquired by the Warsaw National Museum in 1924.
Matejko went beyond portraying the glory of a historical event and attempted to convey hints of how the country's history would play out in the future. This event was merely a hollow victory that failed to secure Poland's future. [6] Matejko shows that the homage was an empty gesture and that it was Prussia that exploited it rather than Poland. [6]
The Babin Republic (in Polish Rzeczpospolita Babińska) is an oil painting by Jan Matejko from 1881. [1] This painting depicts a meeting of the Babin Republic, a literary society founded in the sixteenth-century Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth which left a long-lasting impression on Polish culture.
In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction and life paralysis.” ― Brené Brown “I tend to get pretty depressed and I have some issues with anxiety and things like that ...
The Sermon of Piotr Skarga [1] or Skarga's Sermon (Polish: Kazanie Skargi) is a large oil painting by Jan Matejko, finished in 1864, now in the National Museum, Warsaw in Poland. It depicts a sermon on political matters by the Jesuit priest Piotr Skarga , a chief figure of the Counter Reformation in Poland, where he rebukes the Polish elite for ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more