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  • Nicolaus Copernicus on his deathbed
    • Creator: Walery Eliasz Radzikowski
    • Technique: oil painting on canvas
    • Date: 1869
    • Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
  • Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus
    • Creator: Teodor Edward Knorr
    • Technique: oil painting on canvas
    • Date: 1838
    • Description: Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus by the little-known artist T. Knorr (signature in the central part of the painting, on the right side of the figure) from the mid-19th c. Artistically, it is an unsuccessful travesty of Copernicus' portrait formerly held by the Academic Gymnasium of Toruń
    • Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
  • Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus
    • Creator: Author unknown
    • Technique: oil painting on canvas
    • Date: 17th century
    • Description: Copy of Copernicus' portrait from the 17th c. made by Józef Flik in 1981 (Jagiellonian University Museum)
    • Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
  • The death of Nicolaus Copernicus
    • Creator: Aleksander Lesser
    • Technique: oil painting on canvas
    • Date: ca. 1873
    • Description: The painting represents the ailing Nicolaus Copernicus seated in an armchair and surrounded by friends and fellow Warmian canons in his residence in Frombork (Frauenburg). The astronomer is leafing through a printed copy of his De revolutionibus. It is highly unlikely in fact that a scene like this took place. The painting was commissioned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the great astronomer
    • Location: Regional Museum in Toruń