Jan Matejko · 1864
Skarga's Sermon
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The Jesuit Piotr Skarga stands at upper right with raised arms, warning the king, the magnates in gold robes and the red-robed clergy in a crowded Wawel Cathedral, while the audience listens motionless. Royal Castle, Warsaw.
Up to 42.1 × 24 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
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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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Skarga's Sermon
Matejko finished Skarga's Sermon in May 1864; it was the first 'large' painting of his career, on a canvas of over eight square metres, several times larger than anything he had made before. It was shown at the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, where its premiere drew crowds and reviews, and Count Maurycy Potocki soon bought it for 10,000 florins. The Jesuit Piotr Skarga appears at upper right in the presbytery of Wawel Cathedral, his face a self-portrait of the artist, while the magnates and King Sigismund III listen motionless.
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.
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