The first-ever exhibit dedicated to the work of Polish painter Szymon Czechowicz (1689-1775), whose talent matched the best Italian masters of the Baroque era. One of very few Polish artists to have studied in Rome when it was the undisputed capital of the Baroque style, Czechowicz left Poland in 1710. Immediately upon returning to his homeland twenty years later, Czechowicz became extraordinarily renowned in the vast Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where his skill had virtually no equal. Commissioned to paint hundreds of works during his long life, this exhibit displays almost 200 artworks, collected from numerous museums and churches from Poland, France, Italy, Lithuania, Ukraine and the United States.