had a spat with the dean of a painting school in Vienna’. More than a decade later, in 1873, during a trip to Bohemia, from which his father had originated, Matejko, by then an internationally ...

Warsaw's Kordegarda gallery has unveiled an exhibition entitled "Jan Matejko: Preliminary Sketches" to mark 185 years since the birth of one of Poland's most prominent painters and to commemorate ...

Here’s another painting that carries a lot of historical context, but this time the depicted scene couldn’t have been witnessed by the author. Jan Matejko, widely accepted as Poland’s most important ...