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initiatedanewareaofresearchconcernedwithPolish-Italian
artisticrelationsfromthetimeofItalianUnifcationintheyear
1871.Alongsidequestionofpainting,sculptureandarchitec-
ture,thesubject-matterembracedawiderangeofproblems
ofartisticcultureaswellastheatre,flm,connectionswith
literature,aswellasthepresentationoftheHenrykSiemiradzki:
CatalogueRaisonnéofthePaintings.
TheconferenceAntiquityinPolishartandartisticculture
fromtheendofthe18thtothebeginningofthe21stcentury:
fromFranciszekSmuglewicztoIgorMitoraj(Antykwpolskiej
sztuceikulturzeartystycznejkońcaXVIII-początkuXXIwie-
ku.OdFranciszkaSmuglewiczadoIgoraMitoraja)organised
bythePolishInstituteofWorldArtStudiestookplaceon
21-23September2022atthePavilionoftheAssociationof
PolishArchitects(SARP)inWarsaw.Itcomprisedthenext
elementoftheresearchprogrammeoftheInstitute,devotedto
connectionsbetweenPolishartandtheMediterraneanworld.
Polisharthistorianshaveexaminedtheseassociationsover
manyyears,beginningwiththeperiodfromtheMiddleAges
tothe18thcentury.Onlyrecentlyhastherebeenadeeper
studyoftheartofthemorerecentera,particularlyinview
ofthefactthatinthe19thcenturyassociationswithancient,
ChristianandcontemporaryRomebecameanexpressionof
resistancetotheOrthodoxandProtestantcultureandideology
oftwoofthepartitioningpowers,RussiaandPrussia.
Inviewoftheirconsiderablenumberandthematicdi-
versity,thetextsfromtheconferencehavebeendividedinto
twovolumes:
1.AntiquityinPolishartandartisticcultureoftheendofthe
18thandthe19thcenturies(Antykwpolskiejsztuceikulturze
artystycznejkońcaXVIIIiXIXwieku)appearsasvolumeXof
theannualpublication‘TheArtofEasternEurope/Sztuka
EuropyWschodniej’
,
2.AntiquityinPolishartandartisticcultureinthe20thand
thebeginningofthe21stcenturies(Antykwpolskiejsztuceikul-
turzeartystycznejXXipoczątkuXXIwieku)asvolume17ofthe
annualpublication‘FineArtsDiary/PamiętnikSztukPięknych’.
Thisfrstvolumecoverstheperiodfromthereignof
thelastPolishmonarch,KingStanisławAugustPoniatowski
(1764-1795)totheendofthe19thcentury.Theopeningtexts
areconcernedwithartistsandartisticphenomenaassociated
withthecirclewhichenjoyedhispatronage,andwiththe
dominatingfgureofFranciszekSmuglewicz,adistinguished
painterwhowaseducatedinRomeandcreatedaSchoolof
ArtattheUniversityofWilno(Vilnius).Subsequentarticles
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constituteasurveyofquestionsrelatingto19thcenturyart,
particularlythoseinvolvinghistoricismandacademism.
ThankstoitsconnectionswithRomancivilisation,Polish
cultureandartwereabletoretaintheirautonomyandinde-
pendence.Thefactthattheyconfrmationtheiradherenceto
thecultureoftheWestwasalsoofconsiderablesignifcance.
Thepurposeoftheconferenceandthevolumesofstudies
thusdemonstratesimportantsourcesofthemodernPolish
tradition.
Thepresent(second)volumecontainstextsdevotedto
theinspirationofClassicismupontheartofthe20thandthe
early21stcenturies.Itcomprisesasurveyofarangeofques-
tionswithinthefeldsofarchitecture,paintingandsculpture
which,onthebasisofselectedexamples,presentsanimage
oftransformation,fromtheimitationofAntiqueformsinthe
early20thcentury,tonewartisticideaswhichmodifythese
inaccordancewiththeconventionsoftheeraofmodernism.
Beginningwithclassicalmotifsinarchitectureandarchi-
tecturaldecoration,andtheconventionsoftheNewClassicist
styleinpaintingandsculptureduringtheinterwarperiod,we
passtoavarietyofrealisationsinthefeldsoftheatre,theat-
ricalarchitecture,flmandfgurativepainting,andconclude
withananalysisofpost-classicistcreativeworkinsculpture
atthebeginningofthe21stcentury,includingthatofIgor
Mitoraj,thedistinguishedsculptorwhowaseducatedin
KrakówandworkedinItaly.
