A few years ago I had a pleasure to participate in a British project called National Inventory of Continental European Paintings: I have researched and made catalogue entries for 231 paintings in the collection of York Art Gallery, dating back from 15th century to ca. 1900. Obviously those earliest pictures…
Late-gothic masterpiece from Vienna
A myth of a glorious imperial past is still vivid among many inhabitants of former Austro-Hungarian Empire and I must admit I am one of them. I very much value the fact that now and then I have a chance to participate in a party where – at certain point…
Review of a book “”Picturing the ‘Pregnant’ Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430–1550 […]”
A new issue of journal Folia Historiae Artium is out, and it contains my review of a book by Penny Howell Jolly, “Picturing the ‘Pregnant’ Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430–1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint” (2014). PDF of my text (in Polish) is now available on-line: http://www.pau.krakow.pl/FHA/FHA_16_2018_s_143_146.pdf A whole current…
An open lecture in the Historical Museum of the City of Cracow.
The Historical Museum of the City of Cracow organizes a cycle in the branch “Rynek Underground”; current edition is dedicated to the four elements, starting from the motif of water. Among events, workshops and lectures in this cycle there will also be my lecture on hygiene and health in medieval…