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The article focuses on the analysis of the specific relationship between painting and photography in the 1960s and 1990s. Through the works of model artists from the 1960s and 1990s - Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Richard Hamilton (b. 1922), Franz Gertsch (b. 1930), Georg Shaw (b. 1966), Peter Doig (b. 1959), Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965) and Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) -, the paper compares approaches to reality,...
The paper attempts to describe a complicated history of the public monuments erected in Eastern Europe in the course of modern history - from Lenin's favourite pet-project, the Plan for Monumental Propaganda from 1918, making use of public monuments for propagation of Communism, through the wave of demolitions of a series of bronze or marble statues of pro-soviet politicians in its satellite states...
The thematization of topic of the history of art in Central Europe as a specific art historical phenomenon is a fascinating and at the same time quite dramatic story. The paper presents an attempt to outline the main trends, which shaped research into the history of art in the region: e.g. national history of art, cosmopolitanism as scientism, global history of art as racialism, nationalists versus...
The paper examines why Jan Bialostocki found interest in the work of Georg Kubler, especially in his book: The Shape of Time. Remarks on the History of Things (New Haven - London 1962), which begins and ends with an attack on iconology. The Polish art historian reviewed and then cited it a great deal. His conception was to have constituted a reply to the crisis of the concept of style, and above all,...
The paper focuses on Canadian artist Graham Landin (b. 1982), whose works are an example of a new development that demonstrates an itinerant post-spectacle practice activated through urban public sphere(s). The works in question appropriate everyday elements and architecture of urban public sphere(s) to effectuate their dissemination and understanding. The materials used by the artist are large sheets...
Via analysing the fresco decoration of the Piarist Church in Prievidza by Viennese painter Johann Stephan Daniel Bopovsky-Bujak (1751 - 1753), the paper takes a closer look at the activities of the Piarist Order in Central Europe, beside the Jesuits the second most prominent educational order of the Counter Reformation, established by St. Joseph Calasanz in 1597. The early arrival of the order in...
The article focuses on a group of prominent sacral spaces of the early medieval Croatian state (e.g. in Crkvina in Biskupija, Zazvic or Cetina) displaying some characteristics of the contemporary Carolingian architecture, including one of the most innovative and impressive features of medieval architecture in general, the westwork. It argues for a broader perspective, including cultural anthropology...
The remodelling and decoration of the provost St. Hypolyte Church in Hradiště/Poltenberg near Znojmo marks the final phase of the Baroque era building activities of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star in Moravia. This unique artistic complex is dominated by a monumental wall painting by noted artist Franz Anton Maulbertsch and his collaborators (1776) depicting 'The Finding of the Holy Cross',...
The paper examines connection between a work of literature (Albrechtscodex, before 1734) and a work of art (vault paintings in the Vienna National Library by Daniel Gran, 1726, 1730). Given that the Albrechtscodex has only a small number of continuous text passages, the part dealing with the National Library gains a great importance. The text by concettist Conrad Adolph von Albrecht differs massively...
The article focuses on two building projects commissioned by Count Andreas Joseph Koháry, an influential land owner and officer in the wars against Turks, in the first half of the 18th century - i.e. castles in Ebenthal, Lower Austria, and in St. Anton (Svätý Anton), Upper Hungary (today Slovakia). It touches predominantly the involvement of Viennese architect Johann Enzenhoffer and painter Anton...
The article focuses on the issue of the looted Jewish art during the fascist Slovak State (1939 - 1945) and represents a pioneer attempt to summarize all available information. It covers the legal background (The Jewish Codex of 1941), procedures for gathering and evaluation of concerned objects (paintings, sculptures, applied art etc.), personal involvement of local art historians (Dr. Vladimír Wágner,...
The paper analyses vault paintings in the pilgrimage Pauline Church and the Holy Fountain Chapel in Mariatal, one of the most important pilgrimage sites of Historic Hungary, established in 1377 by king Louis I 'the Great' of Anjou. The paintings, executed in the first half of the 18th century, depicted Virgin Mary (sanctuary - later repainted during regothization) and history of the Pauline Order...
The paper takes a closer look at the Late Baroque remodelling of the St. Emmeram Cathedral in Nitra, commissioned by Bishop Ladislas Adam Count Erdody and executed from 1710 to 1732, and especially at its wall paintings by noted artist Gottlieb Anton Galliarti. The text and figures guide us through general historical background, architectural development of the cathedral, Galliarti's activities in...
The article analyses a monumental vault painting by noted artist Franz Anton Maulbertsch in the Philosophical Hall of the Strahov Library depicting 'The Spiritual Development of the Mankind' (1794). The painting shows a merger of two approaches: Maulbertsch's Baroque fresco techniques and drawing techniques of his student Martin Michl, who is to be counted among the artists of Neoclassicism.
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