The monumental work, exhibited from May 21 to August 30, 2021, at a pres tigious British cultural institution, was favoured by its own daily arrangement - of the planets. The National Gallery and the Polish Cultural Institute in London, with the support of The Capricorn Foundation and the „Independent” Programme Office, made the right decision to present to guests in Trafalgar Square outstanding artists from outside Great Britain, whose work deserves to be discovered and shown to an international, wide audience. The organizers of the exhibition wrote, that telling about a forgotten piece of Polish art, Polish heritage, must begin with Matejko. The temporary exhibition was celebrated two eminent Poles: Nicolaus Copernicus, a Renaissance astronomer, creating a completely new, real truth about the arrangement of the cosmos, and Jan Matejko, the most outstanding and widely valued painter, who shared creative genius and passion for science. This amazing order of the world and the discovery of the real sky not only raised the hope of man, who could reach the farthest corners of the vast universe with his own mind, which became a contribution to the admiration of Polish historical painting and an excellent idea for expression among students of Polish schools. Growing curiosity and a pretext for reflection and discussion around Copernicus’ work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, were briefly but accurately published in the media, in the press and recommended on television. The author, being an active and passive member of the researched community, analysed both honourable and exciting events using virtual ethnography.
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