Craig Hugh Smyth
Mannerism and ‘Maniera’

“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.”

LEONARDO DA VINCI, LADY WITH AN ERMINE

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.

OPENING UP.
An Exhibition of Six Major Polish Painters

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.