Antoni Stanisław Brodowski (26 December 1784,

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– 31 March 1832, Warsaw) was a Polish painter in the Classical style.

Biography

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@ Cultuer.pl. He also studied art, however, and his first lessons were with

Marcello Bacciarelli Marcello Bacciarelli (; 16 February 1731 – 5 January 1818) was an Italian-born painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassicism, Neoclassic periods active in Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Biography He was born in Rome, and stud ...

.Brief biography
@ the Museum of King John III's Palace at Wilanów. From 1805 to 1808, he lived in Paris, tutoring the children of Tadeusz Mostowski, a prominent politician and writer, while studying with the miniaturist, Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin. When he went back to Warsaw, he worked as a clerk in the Ministry of Justice. He returned to Paris in 1809 on a government stipend; taking some lessons with

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. Soon, he balked at the rules that required him to send paintings home for approval and his funds were cut off in 1812. He decided to stay in Paris and support himself by painting portraits while taking more lessons, this time from

François Gérard François Pascal Simon Gérard (, 4 May 1770 – 11 January 1837), titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was Italian. A ...

, who became his patron. Once again in Warsaw, and unable to make a living with his art, he was able to obtain work at the Ministry of the Interior, where his old employer Mostowski was Minister. In 1820, after winning a gold medal for his painting of Saul and David, he was appointed an Interim Professor of Drawing and Painting at the

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. He became a full Professor in 1824 and remained there until the University was closed by Russian authorities in 1830. In 1822, he became a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning and, in 1825, he was named a Knight, 3rd Class, in the

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. Largely known as a portrait painter, he created likenesses of

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, Archbishop

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, the historian Ludwik Osiński and Bishop Jan Paweł Woronicz, among many others. He also did numerous works on mythological and biblical topics and wrote a book entitled ''Co stanowi szkołę malarską'' (What is a School of Painting?). Among his notable students were

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and the sculptor Jakub Tatarkiewicz. He had two sons: Józef and Tadeusz, who both became painters.

Selected paintings

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and

Antigone ANTIGONE (Algorithms for coNTinuous / Integer Global Optimization of Nonlinear Equations), is a deterministic global optimization solver for general Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs (MINLP). History ANTIGONE is an evolution of GloMIQO, a global ...

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in the

Phrygian Cap The Phrygian cap ( ), also known as Thracian cap and liberty cap, is a soft Pointed hat, conical Hat, cap with the apex bent over, associated in Classical antiquity, antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and Asia. The Phry ...

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's Anger at

David David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ...

'', 1810s

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Biography

Selected paintings

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