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Jan Matejko House (Polish: Dom Jana Matejki) is a museum dedicated to Polish painter Jan Matejko that was established in 1895 and has been a branch of the National Museum in Cracow since 1904. The building has been listed as a cultural property under the registration number A-58 in 12.05.1931
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House on Floriańska Street in Kraków (circa 1898) Interior of the house (circa 1898) The Jan Matejko Society (Towarzystwo im. Jana Matejki) was an association active from 1895 to 1908, which aimed to acquire and transform Jan Matejko's birthplace and residence into a museum before transferring it to the Kraków municipality or a similar institution.
On the canvas, Matejko depicted Kleparski Square, filled with crowds of people.In the background, the buildings of Krakow, flooded with the light of the rising sun, are shown: on the right, the Barbican, St. Florian's Gate and in the distance, the towers of St. Mary's Church, on the left, behind the gate there is the silhouette of the university collegiate church of St. Florian.
A committee consisting of Jan Matejko, Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, Józef Kremer, Paweł Popiel and Teofil Żebrawski was established in 1868 to determine the costs and scope of work. [4] The works started on 13 May 1869 and continued till 19 November of the same year. [5]
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]
Jan Matejko conveyed the cheerfulness of Babin by placing a light-filled orchard in the background. The landscape could have been modelled after Matejko's own Manor House in Krzesławice. [1] The motif of play and banqueting in a serene natural environment derives from the literary genre of the pastoral, which was widely popular in Renaissance ...