The Battle of Grunwald at the National Museum in Warsaw is likely Poland’s most famous painting.  Completed by Jan Matejko in 1878, the work is an amalgam of events from the largest battle in the Middle Ages, a fight in which 24,000 Teutonic Knights were defeated by 39,000 troops from the combined forces of the Kingdom of…
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