Her heir was the only son of her youngest sister, Catherine of Poland, Queen of Sweden - Sigismund Vasa. Anna helped him, after her husband's death, gain the Polish throne as Sigismund III Vasa.
Anna died as Dowager Queen of Poland during her nephew Sigismund's reign, in her own country where she had been born and had lived.
Anna Jagiellon is one of the persons who figure in a famous painting by Jan Matejko depicting the preaching of Piotr Skarga.
Warsaw was Anna's main residence before it become the capital and she embellished the city by funding a variety structures, many of which still exist today. She also funded several distinguished tomb monuments in the Wawel Cathedral, including the monument of her brother King Sigismund Augustus, her own monument in Sigismund's Chapel (both 1574–1575, Santi Gucci) and her husband Stefan Batory in the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1586, Santi Gucci) as well as the tomb of mother Bona Sforza in the Basilica di San Nicola in Bari (1593). In 1586 (ten years after it was painted) she ordered to place her portrait in coronation robes in the Sigismund's Chapel.[1]
