The study of the early works by Joseph Führich helps to elucidate his role in the formation of the national schools of painting as understood by the early 19th century. It also reveals the […]
Carol Pop de Szathmari was born in Cluj, Transylvania, in 1812. Being a passionate traveller, Szathmari journeyed through Europe and often crossed the Carpathian Mountains to […]
This article is about Carol Pop de Szathmari, born in Cluj, Transylvania, in 1812. Being a passionate traveller, […]
The transfer and display of Asian monumental architecture was a powerful means to appropriate the built cultural heritage of the colonies for the European métropole. Addressing a scientific desideratum […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
At the beginning of the 19th century, German artists lived in Italy and worked as art agents for art galleries in their home countries. One such art trade partner was the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. One of their art agents […]
The subject of the article is the presence of Polish students in the most important private artistic school in Paris in the second half of the 19th century. The extant records regarding the atelier for male students made it possible to […]
The 1889 Military Law, far from being of no concern to neo-impressionists, was the subject of antimilitarist cartoons by Maximilien Luce and antimilitarist paintings by the neo-impressionist outsider, ‚Le douanier‘ Rousseau. […]