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Prussian Tribute by Jan Aloiy Mateiko

Prussian Tribute by Jan Aloiy Mateiko

On April 10, 1525, the last Grand Master of the Order of the Crusaders and the first secular ruler of Prussia, Prince Albert Hohenzollern, took the vassal oath to King Sigismund the Old in the Krakow market.

In 1882, Jan Matejko completed his work on the painting “The Prussian Tribute”, in which he immortalized this most significant event in the history of the reign of the Jagiellonian dynasty. The static, monumental composition underlines the solemnity of the moment. Grand Master swears allegiance to Sigismund, kneeling in front of his throne.

Among other participants of the action we see: the queen Bon and the royal offspring, the young Sigismund Augustus, standing next to her teacher Peter Opalinsky. Interestingly, in some of the characters in the picture, portrait resemblance to Mateyko is easily found. Such are the royal jester Stanczyk and the architect Bartolomeo Beretti, the creator of the Zygmunt chapel, which is located some distance from the “epicenter of events”.

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