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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, [...]

0033 Eduardo Lamas-Delgado, Quelques considérations sur le thème du présage de la Passion en Espagne. À propos d'une image "très mystérieuse de la Nativité", tableau retrouvé de Mateo Cerezo (1637-1666)

The cult of the Christ Child and his depiction with the Arma Christi expanded enormously during the 17th century, owing to the revival of mysticism spread by the new reformed orders [...]

0027 Ana Lavrič, O hierarhiji svetnikov na oltarnih nastavkih. Iz vizitacijskih zapisnikov ljubljanskega škofa Otona Friderika Buchheima (1641–1664) (Slovenian Version)

Vizitacijski zapisniki ljubljanskega škofa Otona Friderika Buchheima (1641–1664) razkrivajo pravilo za dispozicijo svetniških figur na oltarnih nastavkih. Medtem ko titularnemu svetniku pripada osrednje mesto v nastavku, [...]

0028 Ana Lavrič, On the Hierarchy of Saints on Altars. Visitation Records of Otto Friedrich Buchheim, the Bishop of Ljubljana (1641–1664) (English Version)

The visitation records of Otto Friedrich Buchheim, the Bishop of Ljubljana from 1641–1664, offer an insight into the rules governing the disposition of saintly figures in altar retables. The central place was accorded to the titular saint [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

0016 Lubomír Konečný, Georg Franz Buquoy und "La famosissima Notte"

In the first half of the 19th century, Georg Franz Buquoy belonged to the leading personalities of Czech society, science and culture. He authored approximately thirty pieces of writing on various topics, among them a thirteen-pages booklet [...]

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 [...]

0029 Dorota Sieroń-Galusek, Józef Czapski – o uczeniu się i nauczaniu sztuki (Polish version)

Tematem artykułu są zagadnienia formacji intelektualnej i artystycznej. Z niezwykle bogatego bagażu życiowego i intelektualnego Józefa Czapskiego (1896–1993) – malarza i pisarza – autorka wybiera [...]

0030 Dorota Sieroń-Galusek, Józef Czapski – about learning and teaching art (English version)

The subject of the article is the issues of intellectual and artistic formation. From the extremely rich life and intellectual background of Józef Czapski (1896–1993) – a painter and writer – the author [...]

0031 Lovorka Magaš and Petar Prelog, George Grosz and Croatian Art between the Two World Wars

The paper analyses the key aspects of George Grosz's influence on Croatian art between the two World Wars. A number of artists, especially the members of the association Zemlja, considered Grosz to be an author of similar ideological belief [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

0015 Hubertus Günther, Die Salomonische Säulenordnung

As early as 1549, i.e. 50 years before Villalpando's famous Ezechiel commentary was published, Jacques Androuet Ducerceau introduced the Salomonic Order in his Exempla arcuum, a series of engravings in which [...]

0022 Kamila Kłudkiewicz, Collector at the Crossroads. Jan Działyński and the Kórnik Collection of Works of Art ... (English Version)

In the second half of the 19th century, a tendency for a scientific approach to collecting became visible in Europe. Collectors established contacts with art experts and art researchers [...]

0020 Günther Buchinger und Doris Schön, "… jene, die ihre hände hilfreich zum bau erheben …": Zur zeitlichen Konkordanz von Weihe und Bauvollendung am Beispiel der Wiener Augustinerkirche und Georgskapelle

The Augustinian Church in Vienna and the adjacent St. George's Chapel have recently been analysed for the first time according to structural archaeological and art historical criteria and these results compared with the plentiful written sources. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]