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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]
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]
Jan Matejko, sketch for the painting. Twardowski conjuring up the spirit of Barbara before Sigismund August is a sketch for an unrealized painting by Jan Matejko.Executed on a board measuring 26 × 40 cm, signed with initials on the lower right side: JM.
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 .
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 ...
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.
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.
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