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A lecture on Jacopo Bassano by Professor Bernard Aikema

On Wedneday 26 April at 1:30 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 The “Dalpontiana Methodus”. A Neglected Pictorial Mode in Early Modern Europe.

A new issue of Artibus et Historiae, 86, 2022, has appeared

Papers included in the volume concern subjects ranging from Medieval stained glass, to Marco Guidizani’s Medal of Bartolomeo Colleoni, recently discovered paintings by Titian and Lorenzo Lotto to the frontispieces of the successive editions of Jacob Cats’s “Houwelick”.

A new issue of Artibus et Historiae, 85, 2022, has appeared

Papers included in the volume concern subjects ranging from early Rennaissance sculpture, to venetian paintings by Giovanni Bellini, to the collection of gilt-leather wall-hangings of king Augustus II the Strong, collaboration between the artist Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and the mathematician and astronomer Georg Frederick Ursin.

Symbols and Forms in Jewish Art – a New Book Published by IRSA

This is an English translation of a classic study on the iconography of Jewish art by Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein (1885–1989), originally published in Berlin in 1935 as Symbole und Gestalten der jüdischen Kunst. The present edition will make the legendary book by Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein available to wider audiences of international readers for the first time.