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3 unusual facts about Jan Matejko


Roudnice

It is a birthplace of František Xaver Matějka (1793–1860), father of famous Polish painter Jan Matejko.

Wojciech Stattler

His most famous pupil was Poland's nominal painter Jan Matejko.

Zadzim

Zadzim is a birthplace of the world-renown Jewish painter Leopold Pilichowski (1869–1934), student of Jan Matejko, who was active during the final years of the foreign partitions of Poland.


Artur Markowicz

Markowicz studied with Leopold Loeffler, Florian Cynk and with Jan Matejko at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1886–1895.


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Kleparz

The most interesting sights in Kleparz are the Kleparz Market Square with colorful stalls and the Jan Matejko Square located almost side by side and flanked by the Academy of Fine Arts and the St. Florian Church with the Grunwald Monument at its centre.

Rogalin

Rogalin is primarily famous for its 18th-century baroque palace of the Raczyński family, and the adjacent Raczyński Art Gallery, housing a permanent exhibition of Polish and international paintings (including Paul Delaroche and Claude Monet and the famous Jan Matejko's large-scale painting Joanna d'Arc, see a fragment below).