The famous portrait was lent by the Czartoryski Collection, National Museum, Cracow, to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., for the exhibition Circa 1492. Art in the Age of Exploration (October 1991 – January 1992). This book was prepared in order to help introduce the work, hitherto very rarely seen outside Poland, to the American public.
An exhibition, held in the summer of 1991 at the Wawel Royal Castle in Cracow, juxtaposed two fascinating versions of a painting recently discovered to be the earliest dated work by Jan Vermeer.
In this collection of essays the Swedish scholar Patrick Reuterswärd explores the complex language of signs and symbols used by man in his artistic expression. The subjects range from the art of ancient civilizations to that of the Middle Ages and of the twentieth century.
These important studies by the Israeli art historian Moshe Barasch deal with the image of the human figure from antiquity to the twentieth century. They show how in all cultures this image was conceived as being not the mere information of nature, but the reflection of cultural traditions and the religious vision of its creators.
Catalogue of an exhibition of contemporary Polish art held in November 1991 at the Hammer Galleries in New York. The works of six artists (Henryk Stażewski, Jerzy Tchórzewski, Jerzy Stajuda, Ryszard Winiarski, Janusz Orbitowski, Wojciech Ćwiertniewicz) reflect some of the diverse artistic movements in Poland today.
A comprehensive collection of articles by Rachel Wischnitzer, the eminent art historian and pioneer researcher on Jewish art. The focus of her work, which spanned a period of 70 years, is on the manifold relations between European and Near Eastern cultures throughout history.
These essays trace the perception of classical art from antiquity to the present day. The articles focus on the role of restorations and patronage in the development of modern taste, and deal also with the social, psychological, and formal, or iconological, aspects of the response to classical imagery.
In 1990 the Graphische Sammlung Albertina in Vienna showed works by Gustav Klimt, Marc Chagall, Béla Uitz, Leopold Gottlieb, and Emil Nolde, among others, dating from the first four decades of the twentieth century. The aim of the exhibition was to survey the various regional styles which developed in Central Europe and to define them within the framework of European art as a whole.
Catalogue of an exhibition of works of art from the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection at the Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Vaduz.
This scholarly catalogue documents an exhibition of religious work of art (paintings, drawings, sculpture, and art objects) from the famous Barbara Piasecka-Johnson Collection which was held at the Royal Castle in Warsaw in the summer of 1990.
