Perhaps it is a point of view of a medievalist, but I always thought most people associate “Gothic” with the Middle Ages. Today however, we will focus on a phenomenon characteristic for the British culture of the late 18th and the early 19th century. That was the time of popularity…
Imagine this: you are living in an old house and one day your roof starts to leak. You have to fix it – so you go to the attic and look for the leak. Instead, you find an old painting; and it turns out that it may be a lost…
Romanticism is one of the most important movements in the history of Polish culture. Nevertheless, in fact we did not have many painters that would be truly the representatives of theRomantic art: not only in the subject of their paintings but also in their style. Romantic painting is often described…
Sometimes we tend to forget even the great artists – even here, although there are not so many famous names in the Polish collections. At one point it had even been forgotten that the main altar in St Mary’s Church in Cracow was created by Veit Stoss; in 1824 the…
The works of art created by the Old Masters (especially those of famous names) are able to achieve huge prices. From time to time there is a “discovery” of an unknown masterpiece, kept for generations in private collection, or more often simply overpainted and re-discovered in renovation. Of course there…