Painting of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sta%C5%84czyk" class="extiw" title="w:en:Stańczyk">Stańczyk</a> in Miłków Palace.  Stańczyk who was the royal jester to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sigismund_I" class="extiw" title="w:en:Sigismund I">Sigismund I</a>, was the subject of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sta%C5%84czyk_(painting)" class="extiw" title="w:en:Stańczyk (painting)">Painting</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Jan_Matejko" class="extiw" title="w:en:Jan Matejko">Jan Matejko</a> in 1862 (now in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:National_Museum,_Warsaw" class="extiw" title="w:en:National Museum, Warsaw">National Museum, Warsaw</a>).  In the painting, as in this apparent copy, Stańczyk was depicted at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wawel_Castle" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wawel Castle">Wawel Castle</a> engrossed in his thoughts and deeply concerned about the fate of Poland after learning of the Polish army's defeat at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Smolensk" class="extiw" title="w:en:Smolensk">Smolensk</a> in 1514 during the war with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Muscovy" class="extiw" title="w:en:Muscovy">Muscovy</a>.<br>Miłków is a village in Poland located in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:_Lower_Silesia" class="extiw" title="w:en: Lower Silesia">Lower Silesia</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:_Jelenia_G%C3%B3ra_County" class="extiw" title="w:en: Jelenia Góra County">Jelenia Góra County</a> , in the district of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:_Gmina_Podg%C3%B3rzyn" class="extiw" title="w:en: Gmina Podgórzyn">Podgórzyn</a>.  The Neo-Baroque Palace in Miłków was originally built as a baroque palace by Carl Heinrich von Zierotina in 1667. After a fire in 1768, the Palace was rebuilt by the then owner, Count Johann Nepomuk Lodron-Laterano and the neoclassical design of the façade and the emergence of the surrounding park were attributed to him. Further changes were introduced by subsequent owners in the nineteenth century.<br><span style="color:blue;"><i>The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scotch_Mist/Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Scotch Mist/Poland">Scotch Mist Gallery</a> contains many photographs of historic buildings, monuments and memorials of Poland.</i></span>
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