L’Âne qui joue de la lyre – a New Book Published by IRSA

‘L’Âne qui joue de la lyre’ (‘Donkey playing the lyre’) – a legendary script by Jadwiga Kukułczanka, which enchanted Wojciech Jerzy Has and became his last unexecuted film project. Kukułczanka’s play is a ‘total work of art’ – a journey in time and space, full of surprising encounters, reaching back to the tradition of Socratic dialogues.

Jadwiga Kukułczanka
L’Âne qui joue de la lyre

‘L’Âne qui joue de la lyre’ – a legendary script by Jadwiga Kukułczanka, which enchanted Wojciech Jerzy Has and became his last unexecuted film project. Kukułczanka’s play is a ‘total work of art’ – a journey in time and space, full of surprising encounters, reaching back to the tradition of Socratic dialogues.

A new issue of Artibus et Historiae, 88, 2023, has appeared

Papers included in the volume concern subjects ranging from sculptures made by Veit Stoss, to paintings by Paolo Veronese and Filippino Lippi, illustrations of medieval manuscripts, sculptures decorating the façade of Santa Maria del Giglio in Veniceto the formation of the picture collection of the Earls Cowper at Panshanger

Portraiture in Old Poland – a New Book by Jan K. Ostrowski

This landmark book is the first English-language study to tackle its subject in depth. Written by one of Poland’s foremost art historians, it is an essential text for readers keen to look beyond the Western European art centres that have dominated art history since the inception of the discipline.

Jan K. Ostrowski
Portraiture in Old Poland

This landmark book is the first English-language study to tackle its subject in depth. Written by one of Poland’s foremost art historians, it is an essential text for readers keen to look beyond the Western European art centres that have dominated art history since the inception of the discipline.

Special offer on the books by Andréi Nakov

We offer two Andréi Nakov’s books on Russian Avantgarde “Kandinsky, the Enigma of the First Abstract Painting” and „Tatlin’s Reliefs: from Cubism to Abstraction” at discounted prices.

A new issue of Artibus et Historiae, 87, 2023, has appeared

Papers included in the volume concern subjects ranging from Giovanni Bellini’s “Allegories”, to paintings by Jacopo Bassano, Tiepolo’s copies after Veronese, funerary monument to Caterino Cornaro to the limits of Max Dvořák’s “Kunstgeschichte als Geistesgeschichte”.