MARCIN ZALESKI

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Sunday Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Marcin Zaleski (1796-1877) was a Polish painter. He is considered the greatest Polish vedutist (Landscape Painter) of the 19^th C., representing the Neoclassicism. He painted the cityscapes of Warsaw, Kraków and Vilnius.

Zaleski received his education in Kraków and Warsaw. At the age of 20 he began to work as a stage decorator, while on the side line, producing copies of old paintings.

Zaleski in 1828, for the first time, exhibited own work and received a scholarship to continue the art education in Germany, France and Italy.

Zaleski had interest in capturing 3D built-forms, which led him to adopt the craft of photography. He was among the first Polish daguerreotypists to exploit it (photo-artist expert in the process of making photographs like pictures made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine is developed by exposure to mercury vapour).

In 1846, he was appointed as a Professor of perspective at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. 

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