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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]
The Matejko Jubilee Committee which intended to purchase his painting Jan Sobieski pod Wiedniem [] (Jan Sobieski at Vienna) collected funds to purchase that painting, but during the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the relief of Vienna, Matejko announced that he had decided to donate the painting to the Pope on behalf of the Polish nation. [6]
Sobieski meeting Leopold I, by Artur Grottger Sobieski Sending Message of Victory to the Pope, by Jan Matejko. The victory at Vienna set the stage for a conquest of Hungary and (temporarily) lands in the Balkans in the following years by Louis of Baden, Maximilian II Emmanuel of Bavaria and Prince Eugene of Savoy. The Ottomans fought on for ...
Meeting of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I, and the Jagiellonian brothers, Vladislaus II, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia, and Sigismund I, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, by Jan Matejko (1838-1893) Woodcut by Albrecht Dürer from the Triumphal Arch commemorating the double wedding at the First Congress of Vienna, on 22 July 1515.
The last battle of the campaign was the battle of Podhajce in 1698, where Polish hetman Feliks Kazimierz Potocki defeated the Ottoman incursion into the Commonwealth. The League won the war in 1699 and forced the Ottoman Empire to sign the Treaty of Karlowitz .
Rejtan, or the Fall of Poland (Polish: Rejtan. Upadek Polski) is an oil painting by the Polish artist Jan Matejko, finished in 1866, depicting the protest of Tadeusz Rejtan (lower right) against the First Partition of Poland during the Partition Sejm of 1773.
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth coat of arms. The military of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth consisted of two separate armies [1] of the Kingdom of Poland's Crown Army and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army following the 1569 Union of Lublin, which joined to form the bi-conderate elective monarchy of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
16th-century Polish soldiers, depicted by Jan Matejko. After the Second Peace of Thorn (1466), the Teutonic Order was under Polish suzerainty.In the late 1490s, the Order developed the idea of electing only an Imperial Prince as future Grand Master, who as subject to the Emperor could resist having to pay homage to Kings of Poland.