Jan Matejko’s "Battle of Grunwald": new approaches

ENThe collection includes five essays written by outstanding Polish and foreign authors who have addressed the problem of the painting's continuing popularity and the meanings which it has acquired nowadays. Each author represents a specific individual approach - from the critique of written records through art history practiced at the museum and at the university, from the traditional to the most recent interpretive strategies referring both to the work itself and to the discourses within which it has been functioning until today. [From the Foreword]