2010

0001 Michèle Hannoosh, Histoire d'une édition: le Journal de Delacroix

Delacroix's Journal is one of the most important works in the literature of art history – a primary source on nineteenth-century France, an extraordinary reflexion on aesthetics, and a great work of literature in its own right. The new critical edition [...]

0002 Maria Poprzęcka, A Picture behind Glass

The paper considers the singular situation of reception occasioned by a painting shielded with a reflective pane of glass. The reflections in the glass dramatically break the cohesion of the painting and [...]

0003 Manuel Weinberger, Verschollen geglaubtes Planmaterial von Balthasar Neumann ...

The article deals with 31 plans in the cartographic collection of the Austrian National Library. The drawings, rendering as yet unknown information on the blueprints of the residences of Bamberg, Mergentheim, [...]

0004 Christien Melzer, Zur Vorgeschichte des Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinetts

Though the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett was properly established only in 1720, the electoral Saxon Kunstkammer and library in Dresden included a collection of prints and drawings from their very beginnings in the mid-16th century. The article focuses on [...]

0005 Peter Stewart, Geographies of Provincialism in Roman Sculpture

Focusing on Roman Britain but using examples across the empire, this article examines the relevance of geography to the form and distribution of "provincialized" classical imagery in the Roman period. [...]

0006 Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Feuereisen im Dienst politischer Propaganda von Burgund bis Habsburg

Since the reign of Philip the Good, the combination of fire-iron, flint and fire has been used in the Duchy of Burgundy for symbolic purposes. On the founding of his Order of the Golden Fleece in the year 1430, [...]

0007 Fritz Koreny, Ein unbekanntes Meisterwerk altdeutscher Glaskunst: Hans Wertingers gläserne Hostienschale von 1498

This hitherto unknown glass paten with églomisé painting, dated 1498 and measuring 36 cm in diameter, depicts the meeting of Abraham and Melchisedek. The painting can be attributed to Hans Wertinger [...]

0008 Susan Tipton, Diplomatie und Zeremoniell in Botschafterbildern von Carlevarijs und Canaletto

The article investigates representations of entries and audiences of European ambassadors and envoys within the context of early modern diplomacy. In the light of new archival material [...]

0009 Anne Ring Petersen, Attention and Distraction: On the Aesthetic Experience of Video Installation Art

This article examines the interrelationship between attention and distraction in the reception of video installation art, a genre which is commonly associated with "immersion" and an intensified feeling of presence. This tends to veil the fact that [...]

0010 Martin A. Berger, Fixing Images: Civil Rights Photography and the Struggle Over Representation

"Fixing Images" argues that the iconic photographs of civil rights played a key role in limiting the racial reforms of the 1960s. The famous photographs of [...]

0011 Vendula Hnídková, Rondocubism versus National Style

Various terms are used to refer to architectural production in the Czechoslovak Republic after the First World War, among the most common being 'Rondocubism' and the 'National Style'. The terminological ambiguity clearly points to the problem [...]

0012 Juan Luis González García, Charles V and the Habsburgs' Inventories. Changing Patrimony as Dynastic Cult in Early Modern Europe

Apart from a deep respect for the achievements of the Habsburgs, Emperor Maximilian I transmitted to his heirs a practical attitude towards their art collections. Pearls and precious stones were [...]

0013 Agata Wójcik, Jean-Léon Gérôme i Stanisław Chlebowski (Polish Version)

Celem artykułu jest nakreślenie dziejów znajomości Jean-Léon Gérôme i Stanisław Chlebowski. Do rekonstrukcji historii przyjaźni malarzy wykorzystano niepublikowane dotychczas materiały [...]

0014 Agata Wójcik, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Stanisław Chlebowski (English Version)

The aim of the article is to present the story of the relationship between Jean-Léon Gérôme and Stanisław Chlebowski. The reconstruction of their friendship is partly based on yet unpublished source materials on [...]