- History, Art History, Classicism in Architecture, Neo-Classicism, Classicism In Art, Aristocracy, and 18 moreElites, Elites (Political Science), Nobility, Colonial Architecture, 18th & 19th Centuries, 18th Century Art, 19th-Century Art, 19-20th Century (Architecture history), Polish Art and Architecture, Art and the British Raj, English Architectural History, Napoleonic Europe, Architecture, Russian Art, Ceremonial and Symbolic Representations of Sovereignty In Early Modern Europe, Coronations, Nineteenth Century Studies, and Eighteenth Century Historyedit
The Administrative Career of Bonifacy Witkowski (1800–1840) – A Contribution to the History of Building Bureaucracy in the Kingdom of Poland Biographies of architects have a well-established tradition in the Polish historiography of... more
The Administrative Career of Bonifacy Witkowski (1800–1840) – A Contribution to the History of Building Bureaucracy in the Kingdom of Poland
Biographies of architects have a well-established tradition in the Polish historiography of architecture. This also applies to the historiography of Polish architecture at the turn of the 19th c., which predominantly revolves around biographical studies. However, architectural biographies of this period often concentrate on the architects active in big cities, while their colleagues working in provincial areas receive comparatively less research attention. The lack of in-depth exploration of this subject has a detrimental impact on our comprehensive understanding of the Polish architectural culture of that period, particularly its social aspects. Another notable trait of Polish architectural biographies concerning the turn of the 19th c. is the focus on the architects’ creative output (e.g. projects, buildings). Researchers have hitherto paid relatively less attention to tracing the trajectory of individual careers and specific conditions that shaped their development. The inclusion of these aspects in academic discourse offers valuable insights into the social and political backdrop that influenced architectural activity. This holds particular significance in relation to the era of the constitutional Kingdom of Poland (1815–1830), which witnessed a rapid development of modern bureaucracy in the field of building and architecture. This article delves into the well-documented case of Bonifacy Witkowski. Notably, he was among the first graduates of architecture from the University of Warsaw, and within a few years of his graduation, he attained the position of a chief provincial builder in the Province of Mazovia.
Biographies of architects have a well-established tradition in the Polish historiography of architecture. This also applies to the historiography of Polish architecture at the turn of the 19th c., which predominantly revolves around biographical studies. However, architectural biographies of this period often concentrate on the architects active in big cities, while their colleagues working in provincial areas receive comparatively less research attention. The lack of in-depth exploration of this subject has a detrimental impact on our comprehensive understanding of the Polish architectural culture of that period, particularly its social aspects. Another notable trait of Polish architectural biographies concerning the turn of the 19th c. is the focus on the architects’ creative output (e.g. projects, buildings). Researchers have hitherto paid relatively less attention to tracing the trajectory of individual careers and specific conditions that shaped their development. The inclusion of these aspects in academic discourse offers valuable insights into the social and political backdrop that influenced architectural activity. This holds particular significance in relation to the era of the constitutional Kingdom of Poland (1815–1830), which witnessed a rapid development of modern bureaucracy in the field of building and architecture. This article delves into the well-documented case of Bonifacy Witkowski. Notably, he was among the first graduates of architecture from the University of Warsaw, and within a few years of his graduation, he attained the position of a chief provincial builder in the Province of Mazovia.
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Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier’s design for the Temple of Providence in Warsaw, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s capital, is the earliest known evidence of European fascination with the Parthenon as a model for modern commemorative... more
Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier’s design for the Temple of Providence in Warsaw, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s capital, is the earliest known evidence of European fascination with the Parthenon as a model for modern commemorative architecture. However, it was this proposal’s specific political context which makes it especially interesting from the perspective of classical reception studies. It was an artistic reaction of an aristocratic philhellene to the destructive tendencies of the French Revolution on the eve of the Bourbon monarchy’s abolition. The choice of the Parthenon was expressive of Choiseul-Gouffier’s admiration for the idealized heritage of ancient aristocratic republicanism and its alleged relevance to the political culture of the modern ‘republic’ of Poland-Lithuania.
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The aristocratic titles, which the partitioning monarchies granted to some of their Polish noble subjects in the long nineteenth century, did not play a decisive role in the development and formation of the modern Polish noble elite. The... more
The aristocratic titles, which the partitioning monarchies granted to some of their Polish noble subjects in the long nineteenth century, did not play a decisive role in the development and formation of the modern Polish noble elite. The foreign titles could only sanction the internal noble hierarchy, which was apparently much more determined by specific noble traditions and the cult of the pre-partition past. This argument is evidenced by the cases of families which did not need formal title grants to be recognized as truly aristocratic in that period.
K e y w o r d s: aristocracy, hereditary titles, nobility, social hierarchy, elite.
K e y w o r d s: aristocracy, hereditary titles, nobility, social hierarchy, elite.
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W artykule autor skupia się na wojennych i tużpowojennych działaniach inwentaryzacyjnych polskich władz (emigracyjnych i komunistycznych) w zakresie strat architektury zabytkowej w okresie II wojny światowej. Wiedza o stratach w zabytkach... more
W artykule autor skupia się na wojennych i tużpowojennych działaniach inwentaryzacyjnych polskich władz (emigracyjnych i komunistycznych) w zakresie strat architektury zabytkowej w okresie II wojny światowej. Wiedza o stratach w zabytkach architektury była nie tylko istotnym zasobem informacji z punktu widzenia polityki ochrony materialnego dziedzictwa kulturowego. Służyła bowiem również celom propagandowym i ekonomicznym państwa. W moich badaniach nad działaniami inwentaryzacyjnymi kluczowym zagadnieniem jest samo pojęcie straty w odniesieniu do architektury zabytkowej. Analiza dostępnego materiału poświadcza, że obejmowało ono różne przypadki naruszenia materialnej integralności obiektu. Metodologia prac inwentaryzacyjnych miała potem bezpośrednie przełożenie na ogólny obraz (w tym skalę) strat. Odzwierciedlała również ówczesne przekonania na temat wartościowania zabytków, jak i zarazem ambiwalencję samego rozumienia zabytkowości. Głównym przedmiotem niniejszego artykułu nie są więc straty jako takie, lecz sposób ich urzędowej rejestracji i zarazem efekty tego działania.
Research Interests: Cultural Heritage, Second World War, Architectural preservation, Architectural Heritage, Architektura, and 9 moreMonuments, Historical architecture, Soviet occupation of Poland, National Identities and the preservation of Heritage site and Monuments, Destruction of Cultural Heritage, Occupation of Poland During II World War, Ochrona Zabytków, Cultural Losses of Poland during German occupation, and Cultural Losses in World War II
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Research Interests: Art History, Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Historiography (in Art History), Jewish historiography, and 15 moreModern Jewish History, Jews in Poland, Jewish Artists, Jewish Art History, Holocaust in Poland, Jewish Art, Polish-Jewish Relations, Jewish Painters, Communism in Poland, Polish Jewish history, Maurycy Gottlieb, History of Polish People's Republic (PRL), Communist era in Poland, Jewish Artists; Contemporary culture and art history, and Historiography of Art History
Research Interests: Art History, Architecture, Architectural Education, Architectural History, 19th Century Poland, and 11 moreHistory of architecture, Polish Art and Architecture, Warsaw, Neoclassical architecture, History of Exhibitions, Kingdom of Poland 1815, Central European Architecture, University of Warsaw, Architecture and Public Spaces, Kingdom of Poland, and Architectural Exhibitions
Research Interests: Architecture, Polish History, Enlightenment, History of Roman Catholicism, European Enlightenment, and 12 moreIdentity and heritage of Historical Cities, Catholic Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, History and Politics, Politics of History, Kraków, Architektura, Neoclassical architecture, Cracow, Congress of Vienna, Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era History, and Polish Enlightenment
The years between 1815 and 1830 constitute an important period in the history of Poles as a modern national community. During these years, the traditional way of thinking about Poles as a nation of nobles was gradually giving way to a... more
The years between 1815 and 1830 constitute an important period in the history of Poles as a modern national community. During these years, the traditional way of thinking about Poles as a nation of nobles was gradually giving way to a more democratic vision. This socio-political transformation coincided with the development of Neoclassicism in the fine arts. However, the artistic canon of ideal forms appreciated by academics and aristocratic art lovers alike proved too hermetic for modern artistic enterprises such as public monuments of heroes cherished by the masses. This article investigates two such monuments: Bertel Thorvaldsen's equestrian statue of prince Józef Poniatowski in Warsaw, and the monument to national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko in Cracow.
Research Interests: Polish History, Modern Art, National Identity, Modernity, Modern Architecture, and 12 more19th Century (History), Neoclassicism, Classicism in Architecture, Warsaw, Monuments, Neo-Classicism, 19th-Century Art, Memorialisation, 19th Century Architecture, Cracow, War Memorials, and Neoclassical sculpture
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Research Interests: 19th Century (History), Public Memory, 19th Century Poland, Polish Art and Architecture, Classicism in Architecture, and 11 moreFunerary Chapels, Islam and Muslims in Poland and wider Europe, Neo-Classicism, Neoclassical architecture, Kingdom of Poland 1815, Relations between Turkey and Poland, Islam In Russia and the Caucasus, Russo-Turkish Wars, Jan III Sobieski, The House of Romanov In Russian History, and Monuments and Commemoration
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Polish History, Russian History, 19th Century (History), 19th Century Poland, and 10 moreCeremony, Ritual and Performance, Royal court, history of Poland, 19th century Russian History, Court Studies, Królestwo Polskie, European Royal Households, Tsarist Regime, The House of Romanov In Russian History, and Rituals of Royalty
Research Interests: 19th Century (History), Cultural History of Russia, Art of memory, Polish Art and Architecture, Memorials and the Memorial Art-Work in the Public Arena, and 8 moreArt and Politics, Polish-russian relations, history of Poland, Monuments, Memorials, Kingdom of Poland 1815, The House of Romanov In Russian History, and Alexander I Tzar of Russia
Research Interests: Cultural History, Architectural History, Eighteenth-Century British History and Culture, British Empire, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), and 20 moreClassical Reception Studies, Garden History, 18th Century Art, 18th Century Russia, 18th Century, English gardens and landscapes, History of the British Empire, 18th Century Britain, Russian Art, Classicism in Architecture, Russian Architecture, Palladianism, Georgian Studies, Andrea Palladio, Neoclassical architecture, English Architectural History, Georgian Art and Architecture, Georgian England, Architecture 18th Century, and History of Landscape Architecture and Gardens
Research Interests: Architecture, Polish History, Architectural History, Architectural Theory, 19th Century (History), and 8 morePolish Art and Architecture, Neoclassicism, Classicism in Architecture, history of Poland, Neo-Classicism, Art and Architecture in East-Central Europe, 19th Century Architecture, and History of 19th and 20th Century East Central Europe
Research Interests: European History, Early Modern History, History and Classical tradition studies, Polish History, Parliamentary Studies, and 12 moreArchitecture and politics, 19th Century (History), Cultural History of Central Europe, Classical Reception Studies, Parliamentary History, 18th Century, History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Art and Politics, Neoclassicism, history of Poland, Senate, and Roman senate
Trzy pałace Hilarego Szpilowskiego: klasycyzm a problem elitarności wśród szlachty na Mazowszu końca XVIII w. (Three country houses by Hilary Szpilowski: classicism and the problem of elite identity of Mazovian nobility in late 18th century), Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, t. 77, 2015, nr 2, s. 275-302more
Research Interests: Architecture, Early Modern History, Polish History, Architectural History, History of Elites, and 12 moreCountry House History, 18th Century Poland, 18th Century, History of Architectural Representation, History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, History of architecture, Polish Art and Architecture, Historia, Architektura, Neo-Classicism, Stanislaw August Poniatowski, and Early modern Poland
Research Interests: Russian History, Cultural History of Russia, 19th- 20th- century Russian Art, Russian Art, Polish Art and Architecture, and 10 moreCeremony, Ritual and Performance, Art and Politics, Illusion, Polish-russian relations, Art and Gender, Coronations, Art History - 18th and 19th century Painting, The House of Romanov In Russian History, Ceremonial and Symbolic Representations of Sovereignty In Early Modern Europe, and Romanovs
Research Interests: Nineteenth Century Studies, Eighteenth Century History, Nobility, Elites (Political Science), History of Elites, and 9 moreHistory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Elites and Society, Aristocracy, Elites, Polish-russian relations, history of Poland, Elite Formation, European nobility, and History of Eastern Europe
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Wystąpienie stanowi podsumowanie rocznego projektu badawczego w Instytucie Pileckiego dotyczącego zniszczeń architektury zabytkowej w dystrykcie krakowskim w l. 1939-1945. Jego przedmiotem będzie konfrontacja tuż powojennych oficjalnych... more
Wystąpienie stanowi podsumowanie rocznego projektu badawczego w Instytucie Pileckiego dotyczącego zniszczeń architektury zabytkowej w dystrykcie krakowskim w l. 1939-1945. Jego przedmiotem będzie konfrontacja tuż powojennych oficjalnych ustaleń w tym zakresie (w ramach szeroko zakrojonej inwentaryzacji ogółu szkód wojennych) z wynikami własnych badań autora. Szczególny nacisk zostanie położony na zniszczenia zabytków architektury Krakowa, które jak dotąd nie doczekały się opracowania. Ponadto, autor przedstawi skalę i charakter strat w zabytkach na terenach małomiasteczkowych i wiejskich, dokonując rozróżnienia na zniszczenia w trakcie kampanii wrześniowej, okupacji niemieckiej oraz niemiecko-radzieckich działań zbrojnych na przełomie l. 1944 i 1945.
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CFP na drugą konferencję z cyklu: „Architektura w mieście, architektura dla miasta”, pt. MIEJSKA PRZESTRZEŃ PUBLICZNA W „DŁUGIM” XIX WIEKU (30 listopada - 1 grudnia 2017)
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Zapraszamy na ogólnopolską konferencję naukową dotyczącą metodologii badań historii architektury i historii społecznej miast.
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Architektura XIX wieku jest sama w sobie ważnym obszarem badawczym, a równocześnie stanowi fascynujący materiał źródłowy do dziejów społecznych. Miasta tego czasu były przestrzenią dynamicznego rozwoju, intensyfikacji przemian... more
Architektura XIX wieku jest sama w sobie ważnym obszarem badawczym, a równocześnie stanowi fascynujący materiał źródłowy do dziejów społecznych. Miasta tego czasu były przestrzenią dynamicznego rozwoju, intensyfikacji przemian politycznych, społecznych, i kulturowych, powstawania nowych idei i formowania się różnego typu ruchów mających na celu reformę dotychczasowych stosunków. Przemiany te odzwierciedlały się w architekturze i urbanistyce, które z kolei miały wpływ na ludzi ‒ mieszkańców miast i użytkowników ich przestrzeni. W niniejszym tomie historycy oraz historycy sztuki starają się odpowiedzieć na pytania dotyczące trzech obszarów współczesnych badań nad przestrzenią miast ziem polskich w XIX w. Obszary te obejmują kwestię wpływu wspomnianych przemian na debaty i projekty przebudowy, rozbudowy i reorganizacji miast; kwestię „języka”, jakim twórcy i fundatorzy różnych obiektów architektonicznych przemawiali do wyobraźni odbiorców i użytkowników z różnych grup społecznych i etnicznych, kształtując ich tożsamość oraz kwestię wpływu kontekstu politycznego, społecznego i ekonomicznego na układ budynków publicznych i prywatnych.