Umění / Art 2012–6
The new issue of Umění / Art has been just published. Among the articles it contains, we would like to draw your attention to Jindřich Vybíral, Petr Wittlich or Marie Rakušanová. The Jindřich Vybíral’s study looks at the reconstructions, renovations, and new structures designed for the chateaux and… more
Attached file: obsah_umeni_art_6_2012.pdf
Max Dvořák the Imperialist
Max Dvořák is often seen as a crucial figure in the development of art history in central Europe in the early twentieth century. Sir Ernst Gombrich recalled, for example, that his death in 1921 was greeted as a major public event. For Czechs in particular he was often lauded as being a… more
Attached file: 20130327_Rampley.pdf
Concept – Image – Reception
“Baroque Ceiling Painting in European Monasteries” will be the theme of a conference to be held in Bratislava on 19-21 September 2013. It will focus in particular on issues relating to the relationship between image and text and the reception of monumental paintings in the seventeenth and… more
Attached file: CFP_Bratislava_2013_09.pdf
France and Italy. The Evolution of Classicism under Francis I
Sabine Frommel, Directress of Renaissance Art Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes – Sorbonne, gives the lecture held on the 27th February 2013 at 3. 30 p.m. in the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, Prague 1, room 117. In her paper she will elucidate the adoption of Italian typologies… more
Attached file: bibliografia_Sabine_Frommel_2013.pdf
Attached file: bio_Sabine_Frommel.pdf
The “Savages” Have Arrived
Tomáš Winter of the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, presents the results of his many years of research into the issue of primitivism in the exhibition Palm Trees on the Vltava. Primitivism, non-European cultures and Czech visual art 1850–1950, which is being… more
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