Izydor Jabłoński
{{Short description|Polish painter and professor}}
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| birth_name = Izydor Piotr Jabłoński Pawłowicz
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1835|4|4}}
| birth_place = Kraków, Poland
| death_date = {{death date|df=yes|1905|11|13}}
| death_place = Warsaw, Poland
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| nationality = 18px Polish
| known_for = Painting
| training = Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków
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Izydor Jabłoński (born February 7, 1835, in Kraków, died November 13, 1905, therein) was a Polish painter, professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, friend and biographer of Jan Matejko.{{cite web|title=Izydor Jabłoński Information|url=http://www.artinfo.pl/pl/wizytowki/artysci/42807/|website=Art Information|accessdate=20 October 2015}}{{cite web|title=Matejko and Jabłoński|url=http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.dl-catalog-8769dd8e-7298-4eee-a0be-7a082bb118f5|website=Yadda|accessdate=20 October 2015}}
Biography
File:Izydor Jabłoński - Władysław IV po bitwie pod Smoleńskiem 1880.jpg after the Siege of Smolensk.]]
In the years of 1848 to 1856, he studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he was taught by Wojciech Stattler, Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, and sculpture by Henryk Kossowski. He completed his further studies in Munich and Rome. In the years of 1860 to 1861, he travelled around the Balkans and the Near East; and in 1873 around Russia. Between the years of 1877 to 1899, he was a professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
His paintings are themed around religion, and he made many polychromes for churches in Lesser Poland.{{cite web|title=Biography|url=http://www.baza-nazwisk.de/suche.php?see=Jab%C5%82o%C5%84ski%2C+Izydor|website=Baza Nazwisk|accessdate=20 October 2015}} During his time as professor, he taught many artists which lived in Kraków at the time, inter alia: Józef Mehoffer, Edward Okuń, Wojciech Weiss, Ludwik Stasiak, Stanisław Wyspiański, and Zefiryn Ćwikliński. In 1879, he was the director of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych) in Kraków.{{cite web|title=JABŁOŃSKI Izydor|url=http://www.estreicher.uj.edu.pl/xixwieku/indeks/47725.html|website=Estreicher|accessdate=20 October 2015}}
He was buried in the Rakowicki Cemetery, in the tomb of the Szubertów Family, in the Fifth Quarter.
In the Holy Cross Church (Kościół Świętego Krzyża) in Kraków, there is an epitaph for the Jabłonski Family, for Izydor Jabłoński and his brother Leon Jabłoński - a sculptor.{{cite web|title=Information about the painter|url=http://izydor-jablonski.inmemoriam.org/|website=Inmemoriam|accessdate=20 October 2015}}
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Category:19th-century Polish painters
Category:19th-century Polish male artists
Category:20th-century Polish painters