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The beginnings of Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen’s (1738 – 1822) more intensive interest in art and art collecting are associated with his stay in Bratislava (former Pressburg) from 1766 to 1780 (after the appointment to the position of the Governor and Chief Captain of Hungary by Empress Maria Theresa in 1765), and his fascination with the ideas of the French Enlightenment and Freemasonry. The article...
The paper is concerned primarily with the pictures of two Antwerp’s painters of the sixteenth century – Jacques de Backer (ca. 1540/1545–ca. 1591/1599), and Gillis Coignet (ca. 1542–1599) – which, in my view, might have been advised by an art dealer Anthonis Palermo, (Anthonis van Palerme, 1503/1513–ca. 1589), and targeted directly to the French art market. I will argue that due to his instructions...
The article concerns Veit Stoss' works associated with Italy. His possible relationships with Italians in Krakow - Stoss came to Krakow in 1477 - are discussed here and suggestions are offered for the broader context within such contacts might have taken place. Like the figure of St Roche in SS. Annunziata and the Crucifix in Ognissanti, the sepulchral plaque of the Italian humanist Filippo Buonaccorsi,...
The article focuses on peripethies of the art collections, built up by two significant art collectors, active in the territory of present day Slovakia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both, Grazioso Enea Lanfranconi (1850 -1895), coming from a Lombard patrician family and working as one of the leading specialists of his time in the area of waterworks, and Baron Karl Kuffner (1847-1924),...
This essay deals with the painting 'Judas' kiss' (oak panel 144 × 88 cm, original frame) from the altar of The Assumption of the Virgin Mary's chapel on the south side of the St. Martin's church in Spisská Kapitula. The altar of the Coronation of Virgin Mary consists of four paintings devoted to Virgin Mary. Eight depict a christological cycle. A workshop which made this panels might have been of...
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