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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),...
The paper is devoted to transformation of Riegl's, Dvorak's and Schlosser's heritage of methodology in the 1930s. At the same time the pupils of Vienna school of art history Hans Sedlmayr, K. M. Swoboda and Dagobert Frey declared a 'new tasks' of art historiography under an influence of new political situation near closed with the ideology of Nazis. They intentionally attempted to harmonize the diachronic...
This article is dedicated to re-examine the problematic of art geography in the era of globalization concentrated on the focus of the new 'postmodern' geographies and the 'spatial turn'. The authoress discusses about the map of art history on the case study of the DuMont's 'Atlas of World Art' (2004), which is the latest attempt to write the global history of art. The era of globalization brought...
The book presents texts from an international colloquium held on December 11-13, 2003 at the Hotel Forum and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in the conception of Jan Bakos. The title of the international colloquium and published colloquium proceedings encapsulate a trend in the recent discussion about the relationship between art and the market, and it also indicates the viewpoint...
The article addresses specific decorative motives of the Villa Star (1555 -1558) in the Liboc suburb of Prague, an Italianate villa built together with the Royal Summerhouse known under the name of Queen Anne in the garden of the Prague Castle (1537 -1563) to support the imperial candidature of the Bohemian and Hungarian King, Ferdinand I Habsburg. From 1556 to1560 the ceilings of ground floor were...
The article presents interviews with two influential art historians who both plead for rewriting or at least deconstructing modernity, in their eyes a problematic project. The search for contents under a common situation of 'pluralism' might be the common denominator of the interviews that coincide from their different positioning - Kuspit nearer to the symbolic dmension and Danto from the defense...
This essay seeks to examine questions relating to the Biennale of Sharjah and occurrences of censorship at the 2003 Biennale. Through an analysis of Okwui Enwezor's article 'The Black Box' from the Documenta XI catalogue, coupled with an examination of three works of art from the 2003 Sharjah Biennale (Philippe Terrier-Hermann's 'The Romans', Wolfgang Staehle's 'Untitled 2001', Zhu Ming's 'July 26,...
The article maps the international activities of artists on the unofficial Slovak art scene in the period between the 2nd Slovak Visual Artists' Union Congress (2. 11. 1972), launching normalization of artistic life in the aftermath of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968, and the issue of Charter '77 (1. 1. 1977), ushering in a period of courageous and continuous...
The article focuses on the last decade of the 20th century in the Balkan region, aiming at analysing the changes in the contemporary art world within the context of transitional societies such as Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Slovenia and Bosnia - Herzegovina. By interpreting works of some thirty artists (e.g. Tanja Ostojic, Tomislav Gotovac, Vlasta Delimar or Marina Grzinic), the author is trying to discern...
The article offers an evaluation of the fundaments of Floris's theory of disegno by considering drawings that do not fit comfortably into any of the categories (studies after Ancient or contemporary Italian art, modelli, designs for prints, and designs for the decorative arts), defined by the artist's biographer, Carl Van de Velde. Following his return from Italy, Floris broadened the scope of Lambert...
Eugeniusz Kazimirowski painted the oil-painting Jesus Christ as the Divine Mercy in 1934 under the patronage of Father Michał Sopocko, who served as a confessor to Saint Maria Faustyna of the Most Blessed Sacrament and championed her mystical experiences, especially the crucial one from February 22, 1931 - a direct basis of the painting. Its devotional effectiveness - the devotion to the Divine Mercy...
The article deals with Albrecht Duerer's relations to Eastern Europe - direct and indirect dealings of the Nuremberg based artist with artists and patrons from Poland and Prussia to Hungary and Romania. The essay is intended merely as an introduction to the topic and to some of the issues the subject raises, for example Nuremberg's international business ties, direct links to Eastern European patrons...
The National Gallery in Prague collection of 15th and 16th century German painting includes, besides works from most major art centres, also works from the Lower Rhineland region (whose major centre was Cologne), Bartholomaeus Bruyn's 'Ascension of Christ' being one of the core works of this group. The article examines formal aspects of the work and its connection to the contemporary scene and tries...
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 offers a revised view of some aspects of the earlier history of art history in the United States that have previously been ignored, downplayed, or represented inaccurately. It presents the story as it unrolled before 1933 as providing precedents and accordingly a context for the reception of Germanic scholarship, among other things for the origins of current interests in a broader, globalize...
The article takes a closer look at the problematic relationship between Art History and connoisseurship - the latter in today's general opinion summarizing all negative and old-fashioned aspects of the discipline - in a broad historical overview (from G. Vasari to B. Berenson). The author concludes with defending a complete and organic Art History focused on the object, which allows to conjugate the...
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 Decretum Gratiani is the first and the longest text of the Corpus Iuris Canonici, the body of Catholic Church Law. The Bratislava Gratian belongs to a small group of early illuminated copies where the initial H that opens the text is formed by the bodies of Pope and Emperor standing side-by-side and extending hands, and, together with the Arras Gratian, probably represents a native Bolognese example...
The article analyzes the building of the former County House in Levoča (1807-1826) by architect Anton Povolný. The Classicist style quality present in its facade - extraordinary regarding the date of origin, exceeding the surrounding context and bearing witness to the local orientation to Germany - conceals the traditional Late Baroque interior layout bearing witness to the official state power of...
In the 1840s English Gothic Revival movement arrived in historical Hungary with country houses in Rusovce (Oroszvar) by Franz Beer and Velke Uherce (Nagyugroc) by Alois Pichl, both of Austrian origin, in today's Slovakia and in Vep in today's Hungary as its early examples. The article examines their and some of their followers' (e.g. Parchovany/Parno, Ivanka pri Dunaji/Pozsonyivanka) historical and...
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