This is an English translation of a classic study on the iconography of Jewish art by Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein (1885–1989), originally published in Berlin in 1935 as Symbole und Gestalten der jüdischen Kunst. The present edition will make the legendary book by Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein available to wider audiences of international readers for the first time.
This is an English translation of a classic study on the iconography of Jewish art by Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein (1885–1989), originally published in Berlin in 1935 as Symbole und Gestalten der jüdischen Kunst.
On Thursday 19th of May 2022 Andréi Nakov passed away in Brussels.
On Wednesday 26 April 2022 in the Columned Hall of the University of Warsaw the book about ancient Palmyra written by Professor Michał Gawlikowski was presented and handed over to the Author.
This monograph of Palmyra presents the history of the city from its beginnings as an oasis in the desert, through flourishing times of Odainat and time of decline to a place of archaeological excavations which started at the beginning of the 20th century.
This monograph of Palmyra presents the history of the city from its beginnings as an oasis in the desert, through flourishing times of Odainat and time of decline to a place of archaeological excavations which started at the beginning of the 20th century.
The present volume brings together a collection of fourteen articles, written in French, German and English, originally published between 1962 and 2011, devoted to different ways in which ecclesiastical teaching shaped the art of medieval Latin Europe, a theme that has preoccupied Professor Piotr Skubiszewski for his entire scholarly career.
The present volume brings together a collection of fourteen articles, written in French, German and English, originally published between 1962 and 2011, devoted to different ways in which ecclesiastical teaching shaped the art of medieval Latin Europe, a theme that has preoccupied the author for his entire scholarly career.
On Friday 10 December 2021 in the Columned Hall of the University of Warsaw the volume including selected papers written by Professor Piotr Skubiszewski was presented and handed over to the Author.
Papers included in the volume concern subjects ranging from ecclesiastical narrative cycles carried out during the Italian Middle Ages, to venetian painting including new panels by Giovanni Bellini, to social status of Bernardo Bellotto, to works by Caspar David Firedrich.
