Late Birth of a Great Artist: Piotr Michalowski's Sketchbook of 1832

The book covers a very special moment in the life of Piotr Michalowski (1800-55), the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. In his early life, Michalowski built a career as a technocrat and later became head of the state-owned heavy industry. At the time, he proved himself a brilliant amateur salon painter. During the anti-Russian uprising of 1830-31, he was responsible for producing wea...