1781
oil
canvas
From the collection of National Museum in Kraków
Sobieski at Vienna is a 1781 oil by Marcello Bacciarelli, depicting Magyar, held at National Museum in Kraków.
This painting shows a man riding a white horse. He's wearing a helmet with a feather on top and a red cape over his shoulder. The horse is rearing up on its back legs, and the man is holding the reins in one hand and reaching out with the other. In the background, there are some blurry figures and a dark sky. The man's clothes and the horse's harness are detailed, but the background is not very clear. It looks like the man is in the middle of something important, maybe a battle. If you want to learn more about this style of painting, you could look up chiaroscuro.
Marcello Bacciarelli (Italian pronunciation: ; 16 February 1731 – 5 January 1818) was an Italian-born painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods active in Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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