Jan Matejko · 1878
Battle of Grunwald
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
Matejko's enormous (10×4m) painting of the 1410 Polish-Lithuanian victory over the Teutonic Knights — the founding image of Polish national identity. National Museum, Warsaw.
Up to 48 × 21 in · landscape
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Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Battle of Grunwald
The Battle of Grunwald is a painting by Jan Matejko depicting the Battle of Grunwald and the victory of the allied Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania over the Teutonic Order in 1410. The canvas dates to 1878 and is one of the most heroic representations of the history of Poland and Lithuania. It is displayed in the National Museum in Warsaw.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jan Matejko
Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Stańczyk (1862), Rejtan (1866), Union of Lublin (1869), Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish monarchs in book form, and murals in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. He is considered by many as the most celebrated Polish painter, and sometimes as the "national painter" of Poland.
All Jan Matejko prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
