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The article deals with a sumptuous mausoleum in the Italian all'antica style - the Sigismund Chapel (1515-1533) - initiated by King Sigismund I (1467- 1548), who was educated within the circle of Cracow humanists (e.g. Filippo Buonaccorsi, called Callimacho Esperiente). It offers information on the process of raising and decorating the edifice adjacent to the Cracow's Cathedral, description of external...
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 Palatine court sculptor Paul Egell (1691 – 1752) was one of the outstanding artists of Southern German Rococo. Due to his fine carvings and use of precious materials, such as ivory or gilded lime wood, especially his small size bas-reliefs have always been highly estimated. Scholars as Adolf Feulner or Theodor Demmler first commented on the aesthetic values of these in the 1920s and 1930s and...
The article explores St. Stephen’s in Vienna as an ensemble of visual media that responded to the devotional and commemorative needs of its late medieval congregants. A holistic approach to aspects of the church’s architecture and integral sculpture is used to refine the prevailing view of the church as an emblem of Habsburg patronage. On the basis of the wide-ranging plan changes that were adopted...
The first study, which deal with works of the ‘other modernity’ of the French 19th century, deals with objects that, as multiply producible and stylistically eclectic objects, fell through the Modernist grid, although they correspond exactly to a definition of the avant-garde as formulated in the succession of Saint-Simon. The second study asks whether the iconography of “modern life”, in the sense...
The article addresses the topic of the significance of the law of the frame in academic discussion, the classification of artworks, and the pursuit to understand the formal aspects of artistic objects. It has been demonstrated how frequently and to what extent the law of the frame is included in cross-sectional publications on the history of art. The analysis has confirmed considerable importance...
The text aims to present the possibilities of a phenomenological interpretation of a work of art, leading to a significant thematization of corporeality, sensual perception, and man’s in the world and nature. Tracing these motifs is based on examples from the work of Maria Bartuszová and Juraj Gavula and on analyses by Jan Patočka and Petr Rezek on sculpture and haptic resonance. The first part of...
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