Image:Kazanie Skargi.jpg

Kazanie Skargi painted by Jan Matejko

w:Piotr Skarga, a w:Jesuit, giving a w:sermon. Many historical personas of that time (circa 1600, probably before 1598) are visible on this painting [details in Polish). They are:

• right top, Piotr Skarga, in black
• nuncio w:Germanicus Malaspina, b. S. S. Severa, to the right and below Skarga
• cardinal w:Enrico Gaetano (in red, below Skarga)
• Spanish and Autrian envoys, behind him
• in the center: magnates w:Janusz Radziwiłł (1579-1620) (in golden robe), w:Stanisław Stadnicki, w:Mikołaj Zebrzydowski
• w:Jerzy Mniszech, w:Jan Piotr Sapieha and w:Janusz Zborowski to their right, listening
• king w:Zygmunt III Waza to their left
• his sone, prince and future king w:Władysław IV Waza, above and to the left of the king
• chancellor w:Jan Zamoyski, top left (in red)
• w:Mikołaj Wolski, between prince and chancellor
• archbishop w:Stanisław Karnkowski, in purple, to the left of the king
• metropolite of the unites, w:Hipacy Pociej, to the left and above
• two women, w:Anna Jagiellonka and w:Halszka Ostrogska are above the king

Note: In reality Skarga never gave a speech based on his Sermons, they were only printed.

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• Władysław IV Vasa
• History of Poland (1569–1795)
• Jan Matejko
• Jan Matejko's Gallery
• Piotr Skarga
• Elizaveta Ostrogska