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April 2013

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Kraków Philharmonic Hall, home of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra


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Pola Negri, 1924

November 2012

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Onufry Zagłoba as portrayed by Piotr Stachiewicz

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Wojciech Stattler, Self portrait

October 2012

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Kościeliska Valley in the Tatra Mountains, Jan Nepomucen Głowacki, 1840

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Poprad River Gorge, Poland

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The synagogue of Radzanów

September 2012

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Teofila Ludwika Zasławska

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Male nude by Maurycy Trębacz, 1887

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Statues of Jeremi Przybora and Jerzy Wasowski, hosts of the Elderly Gentemen's Cabaret

August 2012

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The Great Map

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The side of a Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft of the 303 Polish Fighter Squadron with the squadron's score of German planes (126) shot down chalked onto it

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Interior of the Tempel Synagogue in Kraków

July 2012

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Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God

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Łazienkowska Thoroughfare

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Szkieletor in 2008

June 2012

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Jadwiga Apostoł at Auschwitz, 1942

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Polish soldiers 1588–1632

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5th Infantry Regiment of the Duchy of Warsaw

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Stańczyk (painting)

May 2012

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A peasant in stocks in a 16th-century Polish woodcut

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Łukasz Orbitowski

April 2012

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Piotr Skrzynecki

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Dethronement of Nicholas I by the Polish Sejm

March 2012

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Death of Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen; Battle of Grunwald (fragment) by Jan Matejko (1878)

February 2012

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Ferdynand Goetel

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Scipione Piattoli

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Portrait of Piotr Tomicki

January 2012

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The PKO Rotunda after the 1979 gas explosion

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Karol Hubert Rostworowski

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Tyszkiewicz Palace, a former seat of the Polish Academy of Literature

2011

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December 2011

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A memorial wooden cross in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw in the summer of 2010

October − November 2011

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Tadeusz Rejtan, fragment of the painting by Jan Matejko

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The Prussian Painting at the Sukiennice Museum in Kraków, Poland

September 2011

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Fragment of the painting Constitution of May 3, 1791, by Jan Matejko

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Statue of the Wawel Dragon by Bronisław Chromy

August 2011

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Donald Tusk

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Rubber stamp of the Revolutionary Avengers

July 2011

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New York-based artist Olek

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Two kremówka cakes

June 2011

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A woman with short black hair arranged in curls is wearing a yellow dress. She is seated with one hand resting on a dog's head, the other holding a pair of glasses.

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The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Kraków

May 2011

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April 2011

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An inundated road sign in Stary Dwór

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Map of Poland under German occupation in 1942

March 2011

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Juliusz Słowacki as portrayed by James Hopwood before 1849

February 2011

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Zouaves of Death

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Frédéric Chopin as painted by Eugène Delacroix in 1838

2010

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December 2010

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Carmelite Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kraków

November 2010

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Kraków Bishops' Palace in Kielce

October 2010

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Stone castle on a hill

September 2010

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Warsaw University Library

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Crown of Bolesław I (replica made in 2001–2003 after original was lost after 1794)

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Abot's Palace at Oliwa

August 2010

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Janusz Krupski

Selection 3

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Róża Thun

July 2010

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SHL 98 model

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The Polish Rider by Rembrandt

June 2010

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Archbishop Józef Kowalczyk

May 2010

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Sławomir Skrzypek

April 2010

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Augustus II

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March 2010

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Szymon Czechowicz, The Entombment

February 2010

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Example of Flemish mannerism in Poland

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Gniezno Doors

January 2010

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Olsztyn castle

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Title page of a 1599 edition of the Wujek Bible

2009

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December 2009

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Badge of the Chrobry II Battalion

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Władysław Oporowski

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Wronki Prison

November 2009

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Karl Wilhelm Scheibler

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Queen Jadwiga and Dymitr of Goraj by Jan Matejko

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Siege of Pskov, 1581-1582

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Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Warsaw

October 2009

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Trzy Korony

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Manor in the village of Mereszowszczyzna, Kosava, Belarus

September 2009

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Marian Bernaciak

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Allied airmen's graves in the Rakowicki Cemetery

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Church of St. Casimir the Prince

August 2009

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