Stańczyk

Jan Matejko was Poland's great 19th-century history painter, working during the years Poland did not exist as a state. Stańczyk is a court jester who has just read a dispatch: Smolensk has fallen. The queen's Renaissance ball is going on behind him. He is the only person in the room who has understood. Now at the National Museum, Warsaw. Now at National Museum, Warsaw @nationalmuseuminwarsaw