File:Matejko Hanging of the Zygmunt bell.jpg

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Summary

Jan Matejko: The Hanging of the Sigismund bell at the Cathedral Tower in 1521 in Kraków

Artist



Description	Polish painter Polish painter, a leading 19th-century
Date of birth/death	24 June 1838	1 November 1893
Location of birth/death	Free City of Kraków	Kraków
Work location	Vienna; Paris; Munich
Authority file	: Q189117 VIAF: 27863576 ISNI: 0000000108826913 ULAN: 500000325 LCCN: n82234077 NLA: 35345706 WorldCat

Title

Hanging of the Sigismund bell at the Cathedral Tower in 1521 in Kraków

Object type

painting

Genre

history painting

Depicted people

Date

1874

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 94 cm (37 in); width: 189 cm (74.4 in)

Collection

National Museum in Warsaw

	Native name	Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie
	Location	Warsaw
	Coordinates	52° 13′ 54″ N, 21° 01′ 29″ E
	Established	20 May 1862
	Website	www.mnw.art.pl
	Authority file	: Q153306 VIAF: 155350218 ISNI: 0000000122540874 LCCN: n50052919 NLA: 36307256 GND: 1008386-8 WorldCat

Current location

not on view

Accession number

MP 441

Inscriptions

Date and signature bottom right:

1874 / Jan Matejko

References

cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl

Source/Photographer

former image source www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl; current image source [1]

Licensing

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:09, 30 September 2015	2,500 × 1,263 (1.37 MB)	Bogomolov.PL	better quality
	21:35, 9 September 2012	800 × 403 (138 KB)	Poeticbent	Reverted to version as of 06:52, 24 November 2005. This is the original painting by Matejko. Subsequent versions originate from inferior hand-made copy of the original. Do not restore!
	06:52, 24 November 2005	800 × 403 (138 KB)	Naive cynic	''Zawieszenie dzwonu Zygmunta na wiezy katedry w roku 1521 w Krakowie'' (Hanging of the Sigismund bell at the cathedral tower in 1521 in Kraków), 1874 painting by Jan Matejko, copy of Wojciech Pysz's [[pl:Grafika:Dzwon.jpg\|u