Thanatos, ca. 1899, by Jacek Malczewski

In Greek mythology, Thanatos was the personification of death.

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Motherland, 1903, by Jacek Malczewski

Portrait of Maria Bal.
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Tobias and Parcae, 1912, by Jacek Malczewski

Tobit (Tobias), a pious man, is blinded by a bird which defecates in his eyes. In ancient Roman religion and myth, the Parcae were the female personifications of destiny who directed the lives/deaths of humans and gods.

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Christ and Samaritan Woman at the Well, 1910, by Jacek Malczewski

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Poland's Hamlet, 1903, by Jacek Malczewski

The women placed on both sides of the picture are an allegory of two different visions of the fate of their homeland.

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jacek malczewski - polski hamlet. portret aleksandra wielopolskiego (1903) (detail)

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1903: Polish Hamlet (Portrait of Alexander Wielopolski) by Jacek Malczewski

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'A Vehicle Against A Winter Landscape', Rafał Malczewski, oil on canvas, 1930.

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Polish Hamlet. Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski by Jacek Malczewski (1903)

The female figures symbolize young revolutionary Poland and old enslaved Poland

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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929), Przebudzenie, 1920
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Muzeum Okręgowe w Bydgoszczy

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