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Who painted it?

Who painted “The Hanging of the Sigismund bell at the Cathedral Tower in 1521 in Kraków”?

“The Hanging of the Sigismund bell at the Cathedral Tower in 1521 in Kraków” was painted by Jan Matejko in 1874. Where to see it: National Museum in Warsaw.

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Jan Matejko: huge, crowded scenes from Polish history, theatrical gestures, rich costumes and dense detail.

Jan Alojzy Matejko (24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. Wikipedia

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More by Jan Matejko

• “Stańczyk”, 1862
• “Battle of Grunwald”, 1878
• “Rejtan”, 1866
• “Prussian Homage”, 1879
• “Constitution of May 3, 1791”, 1891
• “Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God”, 1873
• “Skarga's Sermon”, 1864
• “Stephen Báthory at Pskov”, 1872