The scholar
Primary sources, order of battle, a BibTeX bibliography, citable URIs, IIIF Image API 3.0, Audio-Curator manifests. Open standards, open licences, open data.
To the repositoryVirtual heritage of the Napoleonic era
The battlefield
of Raszyn
1809
A digital battlefield portal for 19 April 1809. January Suchodolski's painting in three billion pixels. A three-dimensional model of Bertel Thorvaldsen's equestrian monument. A VR walk with multimedia and a narrator telling the story of the battle in Polish and English.
Enter the 3D battlefieldThe heavens have left us — but honour remains. Józef Poniatowski, dawn of 20 April 1809 (attributed)
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3D models
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Gigapixel images
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Partner museums
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Napoleonic regiments
Act two · what you bring with you
Three paths to the battlefield
The visitor
A 360° virtual walk across the battlefield. An interactive map with GPS in the field. A conversation with Prince Poniatowski — a voice-and-vision avatar. For families and schools — the Virtual Conservator.
Enter the 2D battlefieldThe Virtual Conservator
A jigsaw application — fifty-six objects to assemble. Three-dimensional models of the Poniatowski monument, Napoleonic uniforms, weapons, and regimental kettledrums. Scattered paintings by Suchodolski, Bacciarelli, and Rosen to piece together. For families, school classes, and the curious of every age.
AssembleAct three · four experiences
Multimedia ready to launch
Four heavy multimedia experiences, each launched by a deliberate choice — never automatically, never without announcing the file size and the narrator's language. Choose what you wish to engage with.
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Listen
The Duke
speaksAn audio-visual avatar of Prince Józef Poniatowski — four animated 9:16 films (the address at Raszyn, the battle scene, a scanning timelapse, the conservation behind the scenes), synchronised with twenty chapters of a narrated audio panorama. From the Prince's birth in 1763 to his death at the Elster in 1813 — a full chronicle of his life, told in the voice of a professional narrator.
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Suchodolski's painting
in gigapixelJanuary Suchodolski, The Battle of Raszyn (1837). A gigapixel photograph at a resolution of 7 billion pixels — of the painting held by the Wielkopolska Military Museum in Poznań, a branch of the National Museum in Poznań. A narrator guides you through six frames of the painting — from the panorama to the detail of a fallen soldier.
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Thorvaldsen's monument
in 3DThe equestrian monument to Prince Józef Poniatowski by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1832). The first ever ultra-precise scan by structural white light of the post-war reconstruction of 1952 — the original was looted in 1944. The digitisation was carried out with the consent of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. An interactive 3D model with description, Audio-Curator narration, and the “Virtual Conservator” mini-game.
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Read
Five acts
of the battleA long-form narrative — roughly 30,000 characters, ~4,500 words. Five acts: from the cavalry prelude at Janczewice (18 April) and the dawn over Falenty, to the Warsaw convention of 20–23 April. The accounts of General Sokolnicki, source documentation, a bibliography in BibTeX format, and an interactive SVG map with links to objects by name.
Act four