Irsa

This year IRSA celebrates its 45th anniversary with a limited special offer on the issues of Artibus et Historiae and books published before 2021.

Papers included in the volume concern subjects ranging from life and artistic output of Felipe Morras, to paintings by Hans Baldung Grien and Jusepe de Ribera, painted decoration of a harpsichord by Tintoretto, drawings for the Sala di Costantino, to the details about life of Julia Lama as a female artist in Venice in the 18th century.

‘L’Âne qui joue de la lyre’ (‘Donkey playing the lyre’) – a legendary script by Jadwiga Kukułczanka, which enchanted Wojciech Jerzy Has and became his last unexecuted film project. Kukułczanka’s play is a ‘total work of art’ – a journey in time and space, full of surprising encounters, reaching back to the tradition of Socratic dialogues.

Papers included in the volume concern subjects ranging from sculptures made by Veit Stoss, to paintings by Paolo Veronese and Filippino Lippi, illustrations of medieval manuscripts, sculptures decorating the façade of Santa Maria del Giglio in Veniceto the formation of the picture collection of the Earls Cowper at Panshanger

On Sunday 4th of February Antonio Paolucci passed away in Florence.

On Tuesday 16th of January Juliusz A. Chrościcki passed away in Warsaw.

This landmark book is the first English-language study to tackle its subject in depth. Written by one of Poland’s foremost art historians, it is an essential text for readers keen to look beyond the Western European art centres that have dominated art history since the inception of the discipline.

We offer two Andréi Nakov’s books on Russian Avantgarde “Kandinsky, the Enigma of the First Abstract Painting” and „Tatlin’s Reliefs: from Cubism to Abstraction” at discounted prices.