| | Polish culture: Jan Matejko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | He continued to expand his historical knowledge by studying old chronicles and developed his passion for documentary drawing by penciling the images of Polish kings and princes, Cracow's architecture, sculpture and decorative art objects. |
 | | Under the influence of the School's Wojciech Korneli Stattler, Matejko acquired a strict drawing discipline, an accurate way of approaching the painting area and a serious attitude to art, which he understood as a vocation and a national mission. |
 | | His other Cracow teacher, Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz, fuelled his interest in history and built respect for monuments and objects of the past. |
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