Out of the 320 or so known oil paintings by Matejko, it is Rejtan which still gives rise to strong emotion today. The piece was much talked about already in the times of its creation. Rejtan. The Fall ...
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Who was Matejko? The Pope of Polish art? An illustrator and chronicler of historic events? Or was he rather a great ideologist, the creator of national myths and Poles’ ideas about their own history ...