Sluby_Jana_Kazimierza_2.jpg

Summary

Jan Matejko : 1 April 1656 Oath by John II Casimir Vasa (historical subject) wikidata:Q9395446 reasonator:Q9395446
Artist
Jan Matejko (1838–1893) wikidata:Q189117 q:cs:Jan Matejko
Jan Matejko
Description Polish painter
Polish painter, a leading 19th-century
Date of birth/death 24 June 1838 Edit this at Wikidata 1 November 1893 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Free City of Kraków Kraków
Work location
Vienna ; Paris ; Munich Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q189117
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
English: King John Casimir's Oath
Polski: Śluby Jana Kazimierza
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people
Date 1893
date QS:P571,+1893-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 315 × 500 cm (10.3 × 16.4 ft)
institution QS:P195,Q1329563
Accession number
VIII-21
Notes
English: Oath of king Jan Kazimierz of Poland , taken in 1655 , during The Deluge . The king (kneeling) pledged in the Lwów Cathedral before the altar of Our Gracious Lady, took vows of loyalty to God and declared the Mother of God to be the Queen of Poland-Lithuania and that he will drive the Swedes out of Poland , better the life of peasantry and stay true to the privileges and rights of the szlachta . On the right side hetman Stefan Czarniecki .
Source/Photographer gazeta.pl
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Śluby Jana Kazimierza (Oath of Jan Kazimierz), 1893