‘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.
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
On Sunday 4th of February Antonio Paolucci passed away in Florence.
On Tuesday 16th of January Juliusz A. Chrościcki passed away in Warsaw.
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.
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.
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”.
IRSA Institute was invited to the technological research carried out on the “Portrait of Clement X Altieri” medal by Gianlorenzo Bernini at the American Academy in Berlin as part of the “Technical Study of Bernini’s Bronzes: Art History, Conservation, Material Science” project.
We want to call your attention to a set of excellent books by Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein and Moshe Barasch, prominent scholars on Jewish art. This summer the books and volumes of “Artibus et Historiae” with papers by either of the authors are available at discounted prices.
On Thursday 27 April at 6 pm in the Lanckoroński hall in the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University (ul. Grodzka 53, Kraków) Professor Bernard Aikema will deliver a lecture Jheronimus Bosch and the Renaissance in Europe.
