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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...
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