On 13th September 2018 I will have a presure to present a talk at the meeting of Genealogy Society of Lesser Poland (Małopolskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne), at 5.00 pm in Europejski Hotel in Cracow. I will present the results of my research on a late gothic painting of Salvator Mundi from…
An article on 15th c. panels in York and Upton House
Quarterly of Art History Institute at the University Wrocław “Quart” 2(48)/2018 has just published my article: “An attribution for two late Gothic central-European panels, in English public collections, depicting episodes from the life of St. Barbara”. The subject of this article is a pair of late Gothic panels, now separated but originally part of one…
A coffin for a finger
Dalmatia (Croatia) is a popular holiday destination and lots of people every Summer visit Zadar. While they are in that city, they may go to visit St Simeon church, where they may find a very interesting medieval chest. It contains the relics of Simeon – but it is not St…
Medieval childhood
Scholars researching everyday life of the Middle Ages often use iconographic sources, that is paintings, miniatures, drawings and woodcuts. Although many of them depict religious scenes, we may find a lot of everyday objects placed in them; including items related to medieval childhood and nursery. Childhood in medieval art was…