A Painted History of Poland

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This exceptional book on history of Poland contains 48 works of great painters. "It wishes to combine historical commentary with an analysis of the picture's content, trying to separate the artist's fantasies and opinions, the specific historical philosophy from the historical truth. Asking the reader to look through double specs: the artist's and historian's, it is - let us say with no false modesty - an innovation, not only for representing various areas of humanities, but also for a broadly based audience." - from Introduction by Janusz Tazbir