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 ...

By the end of the century, Wyczółkowski saw Matejko as representing a style of painting from a previous era, one that should not be continued in the new reality. His Stańczyk is a kind of settling of ...