Stanisław Samostrzelnik

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name = Stanisław Samostrzelnik


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birthdate = c. 1490
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deathdate = 1541
deathplace = Mogiła, near Kraków in Poland
nationality = Polish
field = Painting
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movement = Renaissance
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Stanisław Samostrzelnik (c. 1490 – 1541) [ [http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/s/samostrz/index.html Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1100-1850) ] ] was a Polish Renaissance painter and Cisterian monk from Kraków. He was the first Polish painter known by name who painted in the Renaissance style. There are many frescos by him in the churches of southern Poland. Possibly his most well known work is that of the "Portrait of Piotr Tomicki", which, following a $12,000 donation, recently had restoration work carried out.

Stanisław Samostrzelnik gained recognition for his ornamental miniatures in the genealogical book of the Szydłowiecki family, polychrome painting in the Cistercian monastery in Mogiła, and portrait of Bishop Tomicki in Saint Francis Church in Kraków.en icon cite web |author = Michael J. Mikoś |url = http://www.staropolska.gimnazjum.com.pl/ang/renaissance/Mikos_renaissance/Cultural_r.html |title = RENAISSANCE CULTURAL BACKGROUND|work = www.staropolska.gimnazjum.com.pl |publisher = |pages = |page = |date = |accessdate = 2008-09-26] In Mogiła he painted the scenes from the Annunciation in the chancel and the ones showing the Crucifixion in the cloister and above the vestry. He also decorated the ceiling of the medieval library. Many of Samostrzelnik's religious miniatures are preserved in the collections of the British Museum, the Bodleian Library ("Bona Sforza's Hours" , 1528), and the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

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Jarosław Bogoria Skotnicki", a leaf form the "Catalogus archiepiscoporum Gnesnensium"
Sigismund I the Old and bishop Piotr Tomicki kneeling before St. Stanisław, a leaf form the "Hours of Sigismund I"