Constantinople in Jan Mateyko’s creativity

Abstract

“Recessed in the Bosphorus” and “View of Bebek under Constantinople” two works that stand alone in the works of the great Polish artist Jan Mateyko, who never wrote a nude female body and landscapes. The paintings, painted in 1872 by a young 35yearold artist, are distinguished by their unusually bright and cheerful color. This was due to a trip to Constantinople, which was an event in the life of the artist, she had a journey full of impressions on the ship, and the fabulous eastern landscape of Turkey, and the cordial reception of his cousin with local Poles himself Constantinople, who turns his head and intoxicates the arriving for the irst time a European.