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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]
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.
Whereas Matejko shows Copernicus on top of a tower, in reality his small observatory was probably at ground level, possibly in the garden of his house. [6] Most of Matejko's notable paintings consist of large group scenes. A scene with a single individual such as this, another being Stańczyk, tends to be exceptional in his oeuvre. [2]
Introduction of Christianity to Poland, A.D. 966, the first painting in the series. History of Civilization in Poland (Polish: Dzieje Cywilizacji w Polsce) is a cycle of twelve oil sketches on canvas and wood, created by the Polish nominal painter Jan Matejko in 1889 with accompanying commentaries.
Jan Matejko's self-portrait Jan Matejko (1838–1893) was a Polish painter and academic. He is best known for large canvases devoted to major figures and events in Polish history, such as Stańczyk , Skarga's Sermon , Rejtan , Union of Lublin , Battle of Grunwald , Prussian Homage and Constitution of 3 May .
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.
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.
The interpretation of the painting was greatly influenced by Marian Gorzkowski's feuilleton Hints to Jan Matejko's latest painting "Kościuszko at Racławice", finished in April 1888. [2] [3] Tadeusz Kościuszko is dressed in a fashionable uniform tailcoat, identical to that in Michał Stachowicz's painting Kościuszko's Oath on the Main Square.