The Battlefield of Varna (1444) as the Subject for One Littleknown Drawing by Antoni Piotrowski: “The Landscape Near Varna with а Mound in the Battlefield of 1444, the Place of the Death of King Vladislaus III”
The Battlefield of Varna (1444) as the Subject for One Littleknown Drawing by Antoni Piotrowski: “The Landscape Near Varna with а Mound in the Battlefield of 1444, the Place of the Death of King Vladislaus III”

Summary/Abstract: The Ottoman expansion into European countries was more andmore serious in the late 14th and the 15th centuries. Many battles took placebetween the European and the Ottoman armies in those times and the battle ofVarna (1444) was one of them. It started to be paid particular attention to due tothe death of the commanding king – Vladislaus III Jagelonski, who lost his life inthe battlefield and became called Varnenczik (Varnensis). There are somedescriptions of the Varna battlefield of 1444 deriving from some sources:chronicles or eye-witnesses’ descriptions throughout centuries. One of thoseeyewitnesses to the battlefield in the 80s of the 19th century was Antoni Piotrowski– a Polish versatile artist: a painter, a drawer, an illustrator, a war correspondentand a publicist. His activities as a war correspondent made him find himself in theteritory of present Bulgaria and see the Varna battlefield. One of the thingsconnected with his presence in that area is a very little-known drawing titled “Thelandscape near Varna with a view on the mound in the battlefield of 1444, theplace of the death of king Vladislaus III” (Fig. 1) which is presented in this text

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