Józef Unierzyski/ Decent from the Cross, c. 1887
Oil on canvas
Height: 151 cm (59.4 in); Width: 277 cm (109 in)
National Museum in Kraków
The Descent from the Cross is considered his best, most stylish and effective work, which — as it was written — “among the gray and quite sterile painting production in those years […] must have become an event in Krakow’s painting relations. Criticism fell into admiration, master Matejko was pleased to testify that a work so widely received with applause came out of his masterpiece “…
Józef Unierzyski (20 December 1863, Milewo — 29 December 1948, Kraków) was a Polish painter. From 1891, he served as a Professor of drawing at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków…
Zaidan Gallery 
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