Michalina Janoszanka (1889–1952) is an artist better known for her role on the other side of the canvas, as the muse and mentee of famed Polish painter Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929). She posed for countless symbolist paintings, appearing alone, alongside Malczewski in double-portraits, among satyrs, and as Medusa

The future artist was born on September 29, 1889 in Rzeszów as the daughter of a doctor, Michał Janoch, and Helena Nałęcz-Kaniewska. She quickly lost her father, who died at the age of 32 when she was only a few months old. He did not live long enough to implement his plan for creating the treatment centre - an "inhalatorium" - in Szczawnica. However, these plans were the source of Michalina Janoszanka's later contacts and visits to this Pieniny spa resort.

Michalina studied drawing with Józef Siedlecki at the Adrian Baraniecki Higher Education Courses for Women, which at that time was the last stage of education available to women in Kraków.

Her most impressive works are paintings on glass. The collection of the National Museum in Krakow includes two of her representations of the seasons - Spring and Winter - surprising with their ingenuity and use of color. She also specialised in religious subjects, painting very popular images of saints, also on glass. They combine elements of folk art and the decorative elements characteristic of the Young Poland movement. One of these, Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, can be seen in the side altar in the Church of St. Anne in Kraków.

She died in Kraków on July 10, 1952.