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The unique panegyric of the Szydłowiecki family, one of the most important examples of Polish Renaissance miniature painting ascribed to Stanisław Samostrzelnik, is also a source of reliable information about the objects founded by members of this family. Apart from a glorification of particular representatives of the Szydłowiecki family, who, connected with the royal court, achieved very high ranks in state administration and the Church hierarchy, the text contains also extensive information about their participation in the foundations of numerous objects, not to mention their own residences. The list is impressive, a feature which gives rise to certain doubts concerning its reliability, especially since it refers to a very brief period in the career of the family (two generations). The author attempted to confirm information found in Liber either by resorting to archival material or by identifying the mentioned objects. She also prepared historical documentation for the reconstruction of Szydłowiec Castle, and took part in architectonic research concerning this object and its conservation. The latest discoveries confirming the data contained in Liber include polychromies on the walls of the parish church in Szydłowiec.
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In the second half of the nineteenth century a large part of the Polish emigration made its way to North America. Several decades later, it comprised an almost four millionstrong community, organized in a thousand different associations which cultivated national traditions and, predominantly, patriotic feelings. When in 1903 the American Congress decided to build a statue of Kazimierz Pulaski, the Polish emigres embarked upon a collection of funds for a monument of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a general in the American War of Independence and a hero of the struggle waged for a free Poland at the end of the eighteenth century. The execution of the monument was entrusted to Antoni Popiel, a well-known Polish sculptor. The monument was located in Lafayette park opposite the White House. The unveiling which took place in 1910 was a great state ceremony attended by the President of the United States and delegations from partitioned Poland. A threemeter high bronze figure of General Tadeusz Kościuszko, standing on a granite pedestal, is dressed in an Amercian uniform. Figures of soldiers including that of a Polish peasant who brandishes a scythe against tsarist troops, surround the monument’s base; an eagle symbolizes the Polish national emblem. Almost eighty years later, the metal surface of the monument became corroded and required conservation which was inaugurated in 1987.
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