🪐 „Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversation with God” is already in Toruń! 🪐
The painting Astronomer Copernicus, depicting Nicolaus Copernicus surrounded by astronomical instruments and gazing up into the sky 🌙 with inspiration, was created in 1873 to mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the great astronomer and Toruń’s most famous resident. 🖼 The display of the work, however, was not included in the official programme of the anniversary celebrations that were then held in Cracow. Matejko then decided to show Astronomer Copernicus... by himself, in the Cracow city council hall and then outside Galicia in Warsaw and Vienna.
The exhibition is being held courtesy of the staff of the District Museum in Toruń. The organizer of the exhibition is the Tumult Foundation. The main partner of the event is the Local Government of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship. The partners are the District Museum in Toruń, Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the National Museum in Cracow. The Festival was subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the City of Toruń.
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Strategic Sponsor of the festival is Energa SA