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  • The Late Birth of a Great Artist: Piotr Michałowski’s Sketchbook of 1832

    Translated by Soren Gauger ...
    by Jan K. Ostrowski, Elżbieta Wichrowska ...
    The book covers a very special moment in the life of Piotr Michałowski (1800–55), the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. In his early life, Michałowski built a career as a technocrat and later became head of the state-owned heavy industry. At the time, he proved himself a brilliant amateur salon painter. During the anti-Russian uprising of 1830–31, he was responsible for producing ... Read more

    $68.59 CAD

  • The Late Birth of a Great Artist: Piotr Michałowski’s Sketchbook of 1832

    Translated by Soren Gauger ...
    by Jan K. Ostrowski, Elzbieta Wichrowska ...
    The book covers a very special moment in the life of Piotr Michałowski (1800–55), the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. In his early life, Michałowski built a career as a technocrat and later became head of the state-owned heavy industry. At the time, he proved himself a brilliant amateur salon painter. During the anti-Russian uprising of 1830–31, he was responsible for producing ... Read more

    $62.69 CAD

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