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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

Nicolaus Copernicus University Library
Gagarina 13
87-100 Toruń
Poland

International Centre for Copernican Studies
Bojarskiego 1
87-100 Toruń
Poland