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Adam Stalony-Dobrzański pushed the great tradition of the icon into the future, he broke, transformed, developed and multiplied its archaic canons. In 1932, in Harklowa in Podhale, Włodzimierz Cichoń and Adam StalonyDobrzański found historic, 15th-century polychromes. The discovery and many months of work on their conservation seem to be a moment of awakening the archaic heritage of the icon in the artist’s consciousness. While working on the polychromes in the churches of St. Catherine of Alexandria in Radom, St. Anna in Bobin, and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Michałowo, the artist created his own style, immersed in folk art, tradition of icon and the heritage of Western European art. Jerzy Nowosielski was a student of Adam Stalony-Dobrzański. These two artists created works full of differences, backed by the tradition and cultural heritage of both iconographers, Adam Stalony-Dobrzański was born as a mystic and Jerzy Nowosielski as a theologian.