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Corpus Christi church, interiorSee a painting 115 metres x 15 metres
Visit the National Museum to see the colossal painting 'Panorama of the Battle of Raclawice'.
The first Polish panorama, which measures a staggering 15 metres x 115 metres, it was completed over a period of several months from September 1893 through May 1894 by Jan Styka and Wojciech Kossak, assisted by L. Boller, T. Popiel, Z. Rozwadowski, W. Tetmajer, and W. Wodzinowski.
The panorama depicts the victorious Battle of Raclawice, a glorious episode of the Kosciuszko Insurrection - an heroic, but in the end doomed-to-failure attempt to defend Polish independence. It was fought on the 4th April, 1794, between the insurrectionist force of regulars and peasant volunteers under the command of Kosciuszko himself, (who had earlier distinguished himself as a hero in the American War of Independence), and the Russian army commanded by General Denisov.
Until 1944, the painting was ehxibited in a rotunda in Lvov. After 1945, following territorial changes which left Lvov behind Soviet borders, it was transferred to Wroclaw.
As under the Communist regime its subject was considered politically sensitive, it took many years of effort to have the painting restored and exhibited again. Re-opened in 1985, it has since remained a major tourist attraction. What is shown here is a small section of the whole canvas.
Wroclaw National Museum
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