knows them every Pole. Appear in school textbooks, bank notes, stamps, and even in the comics. Speaking of drawings by Jan Matejko, depicting the Polish kings. From Wednesday originals will be on display at the National Museum in Wroclaw. “Polish Kings” is a collection of 44 drawings.
Cycle pencil drawings founded in the years 1890 – 1893, as one of the last works admired master of historical painting. Drawings ordered Viennese publisher – Maurice Perles, who wanted to give an illustrated history of Polish.
Work on drawings, not only for technical reasons, was not easy. Matejko had to review old prints and chronicles, to faithfully present the dress, the details of armaments, or even facial features of individual rulers.
Often, lack of information, mainly about the first Polish rulers. When you create a drawing Jan Matejko Mieszko I wanted to emphasize the fact that this is the first Polish ruler, because facial features rulers are not typically Slavic. According to the master lovers face Lives visible shade of pagan life, which recently abandoned.
The original drawings were retained by Boleslaw Orzechowiczowi, who in 1916 bought them from Maurice Perles. In 1919 he went to Lviv. Thus, with other collections in 1946, returned to Wroclaw.
“Polish Kings” is shown very rarely. Recently in Wrocław was presented nearly 10 years ago.
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