This monograph of Palmyra presents the history of the city from its beginnings as an oasis in the desert, through flourishing times of Odainat and time of decline to a place of archaeological excavations which started at the beginning of the 20th century.
The present volume brings together a collection of fourteen articles, written in French, German and English, originally published between 1962 and 2011, devoted to different ways in which ecclesiastical teaching shaped the art of medieval Latin Europe, a theme that has preoccupied Professor Piotr Skubiszewski for his entire scholarly career.
Contents MARILYN ARONBERG LAVIN – Giotto – Piero della Francesca – Cavallini: Conceptual Connections (pp. 9–26) PHILIPPE JUNOD – De l’éternité au temps. Note sur les Annonciations au sablier (pp. …
The aim of this book is to question a certain number of anti-modernist visual and cultural prejudices. Advancing ever further in his interpretation of the artist’s œuvre, Andréi Nakov uncovers hidden layers of a creative production that shows itself to be increasingly important to our comprehension of 20th-century modernity.
The book by Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska is dedicated to one of the most popular Polish academic painters in late 19th century and his monumental canvas Pieśń wieczorna [Evening song] painted in 1893.
The two-volume work, Suffering Form: Jerzy Tchórzewski. Painting, published by IRSA under the editorship of Krystyna Czerni and Józef Grabski, appears to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Jerzy …
Contents PIETRO C. MARANI – L’assalto a un bastione disegnato da Leonardo nel giardino di Charles d’Amboise (pp. 9–23) JOSEPH F. GREGORY – Reframing an Icon: Leonardo’s Paris Virgin of …
This book consists of ten articles, written in English, German, French and Italian, between 1962 and 2016. The papers, which discuss subjects ranging from medieval art to the Baroque, have …
