{"id":39660,"date":"1884-07-06T12:57:00","date_gmt":"1884-07-06T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/?post_type=zbiory&#038;p=39660"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:02:38","slug":"wernyhora","status":"publish","type":"zbiory","link":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/collections\/wernyhora\/","title":{"rendered":"Wernyhora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jan Matejko created a symbolic portrait of Wernyhora, an 18th-century Ukrainian bard regarded as a prophetic figure. Wernyhora&#8217;s prophecies regarding the future fates of Poland and Ukraine appear in various Polish sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to tradition, Wernyhora predicted the Partitions of Poland, the national liberation uprisings, and the restoration of the Polish state with the assistance of England and Turkey. In Matejko&#8217;s painting, the bard personifies the &#8220;old Ukraine of Poles&nbsp; and Ruthenians, a land of national and social harmony&#8221; from the pre-partition era. The lyre lying at his feet is a symbol of the song that preserves a shared Ukrainian-Polish heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"38365\" src=\"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Wernyhora-720x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Obraz przedstawiaj\u0105cy grup\u0119 postaci wok\u00f3\u0142 centralnego, brodatego m\u0119\u017cczyzny w bia\u0142ej koszuli i czerwonym p\u0142aszczu z uniesion\u0105 r\u0119k\u0105 i jasnym ksi\u0119\u017cycem tu\u017c za g\u0142ow\u0105, otoczonego m\u0119\u017cczyznami (jeden trzyma notatnik, inny bro\u0144), kobiet\u0105 w haftowanym nakryciu g\u0142owy, le\u017c\u0105cym dzieckiem na pierwszym planie oraz skrzyniami i instrumentem u st\u00f3p, na tle zachmurzonego nieba z kilkoma lec\u0105cymi nietoperzami.\" class=\"wp-image-38365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Wernyhora-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Wernyhora-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Wernyhora-768x1092.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Wernyhora-1920x2731.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Wernyhora-scaled.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We invite you to explore the information about this object in the digital catalogue of the National Museum in Krak\u00f3w\u2019s collections. Author of the entry: Wac\u0142awa Milewska<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mnk-single-button btn-sec d-flex\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zbiory.mnk.pl\/en\/catalog\/372941\" class=\"btn btn-primary image-left\">More information in the digital catalog<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description Jan Matejko created a symbolic portrait of Wernyhora, an 18th-century Ukrainian bard regarded as a prophetic figure. Wernyhora&#8217;s prophecies regarding the future fates of Poland and Ukraine appear in various Polish sources. According to tradition, Wernyhora predicted the Partitions of Poland, the national liberation uprisings, and the restoration of the Polish state with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39659,"template":"","zbiory_categories":[],"class_list":["post-39660","zbiory","type-zbiory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zbiory\/39660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zbiory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/zbiory"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zbiory\/39660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39661,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zbiory\/39660\/revisions\/39661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"zbiory_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zbiory_categories?post=39660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}