The Sigismund Chapel, a mausoleum erected between 1515–1533 for the King of Poland Sigismund I the Jagiellon at Cracow Cathedral, is universally regarded as the perfect example of High Renaissance architecture north of the Alps.
This book consists of ten articles, written in English, German, French and Italian, between 1962 and 2016. The papers, which discuss subjects ranging from medieval art to the Baroque, have been selected as the author’s most representative studies and deal with the history of architecture and art in relation to the contemporary realm of religious, philosophical, and scientific ideas.
‘ […] the studies presented here offer in many aspects a new and deepened view of the Italian Renaissance. They combine a stylistic and iconographic analytical procedure with numerous facts or relevant connotations taken from the realm of cultural history and the history of ideas.
Marc Chagall’s youthful autobiography in the first Polish translation by Jolanta Sell.
A collection of thirty-five poems by the painter Jerzy Tchórzewski (1923–1999), written between 1988 and 1996, and illustrated with 13 monotypes by the author.
The book provides a complex presentation and critical analysis of works of art created in Germny between 1933 and 1945.
This is the first comprehensive monograph of the French artist Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728–1808), painter and designer, known to wider audiences mostly for his exquisite and delicate landscapes, but whose importance in the history of art lies primarily in the engravings done after his drawings and their influence in spreading the Rococo style, and particularly the taste for chinoiserie, throughout Europe.
Papers included in the volume concern subjects ranging from medieval illuminated manuscripts to Renaissance painting, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, to 17th-century works of art.
This book consists of ten articles, written in English, German, French and Italian, between 1962 and 2016. The papers, which discuss subjects ranging from medieval art to the Baroque, have …
A richly illustrated catalogue, accompanying an exhibition organized in Cracow on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of Stasys Eidrigevičius – a celebrated Polish contemporary artist of Lithuanian origin.
