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0070 Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, Szathmári, un mare artist documentarist

This article is about Carol Pop de Szathmari, born in Cluj, Transylvania, in 1812. Being a passionate traveller, [...]

0069 Rachel Esner, In the Artist's Studio with L'Illustration

This article explores the two series of visits to the artist's studio that appeared in the famed French illustrated magazine L'Illustration in the 1850s and in 1886. An in-depth examination of both the texts and images reveals the [...]

0068 Liliana Krantz-Domasłowska, Double cities in the Teutonic state on the example of Toruń

Toruń is the first exemplification of a double city on the territory of the Teutonic state. The ancient, 13th-century pedigree of the Old and New Town prompts a question about [...]

0067 Liliana Krantz-Domasłowska, Miasta podwójne w państwie krzyżackim – przykład Torunia

Toruń to pierwszy na terenie państwa krzyżackiego przykład miasta podwójnego. Wczesna, trzynastowieczna metryka Starego i Nowego Miasta skłania do pytania o przyczyny, jak [...]

0066 Marta Filipová, National treasure or a redundant relic: the roles of the vernacular in Czech art

The article examines the reception of folk art in the visual culture of Bohemia and Czechoslovakia and focuses on the shift in the meaning of folk art in the period of early twentieth-century modernism. It examines closely the [...]

0065 Gerbert Verheij, Art and politics in the former "Portuguese Colonial Empire". The monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque in Lourenço Marques

In 1940, a monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque is inaugurated in the former capital of the Portuguese Colony of Mozambique, Lourenço Marques. The result of a lenghty comissioning process, this homage to [...]