The text summs up the knowledge on the personality of Philipp van den Bossche who worked at the Prague court of Rudolph II as a silk-embroider. Heinrich Modern opened a fresh view on this artist as an outstanding landscape drawer […]
The article takes as its point of departure the various meanings of the Spanish word "trama", observing and ordering these as they relate to different aspects of the art of printmaking. The phenomenon of trama […]
The text places the work of Antonio Porta (1631/32-1702) in the broader context of European architecture. It emphasises the close connections between Porta’s architecture and the work of Francesco Caratti and Jean Baptiste Mathey, […]
The design of the Dubrovnik Cathedral (1671-1713) – a monumental three-nave basilica with a dome over the crossing – was commissioned, thanks to Abbot Stjepan Gradić, from the Roman architect Andrea Bufalini. […]
This contribution is devoted to the tapestry cycle of the Battle of Pavia conserved at the Museo Capodimonte in Naples. Seven tapestries compose this prestigious tapestry set that commemorates the first military success of Charles V […]
This article presents a closer look at an important moment in the history of art collecting in Denmark when Italian art first began to be admired by noble virtuosi. During the last decade of the 17th […]
The article deals with the commission made out by the Portuguese merchant-banker António da Fonseca to Baldassarre Croce to decorate his family chapel in the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome, the national church of Castille […]
This article presents two recently discovered drawings of the reliefs on the Trajan’s column. To put them in their proper artistic context, the drawings are compared to known examples of […]
The Battle of Orsha, part of the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, an example of panel painting (1525–1535), is of paramount importance for the study of the military, as well as for the research in art history, material history, and the hi…
Bitwa pod Orszą, znajdująca się w zbiorach Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie, jest zabytkiem malarstwa tablicowego (1525–1535) i ma ogromne znaczenie dla […]
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