‘ […] 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.
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.
The union of poetry and painting in the work of the great Venetian painters is the theme linking the eighteen essays by Philipp P. Fehl, brought together in this book. The author’s careful study of individual works of art by Titian, Veronese, and the Tiepolos, among others, disposes once and for all of the notion that Venetian art is aesthetically sublime but intellectually shallow.
“Craig Smyth’s book offers particular ways of thinking about the relationship between the classic and the antique in the mid-sixteenth century, about stylistic patterns, imitation, rule and license. Smyth encourages the reader to think of Mannerism as a process, of the Maniera as a discrete style.”
“The collection of Polish art that has been created during the last twenty years by Wojciech Fibak is undoubtedly one of the most interesting assemblages accomplished by a Pole in the 20th c.”
“The collection of Polish art that has been created during the last twenty years by Wojciech Fibak is undoubtedly one of the most interesting assemblages accomplished by a Pole in the 20th c.”
