Renaissance in Poland
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The Renaissance in Poland lasted from the late 15th to the late 16th century and is widely considered to have been the Golden Age of Polish culture. Ruled by the Jagiellonian dynasty, the Crown of the
Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
King Sigismund I the Old and bishop Piotr Tomicki kneeling before St. Stanislaus, a leaf from the Hours of Sigismund I by Stanisław Samostrzelnik, 1535
Portrait of Queen Anna Jagiellon of Poland by Martin Kober, 1576
Graves of the last Jagiellons in the Sigismund's Chapel, hailed as "the most beautiful example of the Tuscan Renaissance north of the Alps"
Szymon Szymonowic
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Szymon Szymonowic was a Polish Renaissance poet. He was known as "the Polish Pindar."
Szymon Szymonowic
