From Library Journal
The catalog of an exhibition organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum that will travel to Houston and San Francisco from December 2002 to May 2003, this book surveys the history of art collecting in Poland since the Renaissance. Edited by Winters, the museum's European art curator, it includes essays by Polish curators and art historians that outline the collecting of Polish and non-Polish art, always in the context of Polish history and geography (and helped by excellent maps). With the disappearance of Poland from the map of Europe in the late 18th century, art, language, religion, and culture became the means of keeping the nation alive. About half the works discussed are Polish (largely 19th- and 20th-century) and will be unfamiliar to many readers; the remainder are European works collected by Polish nobility or royalty, also largely unfamiliar because they are less published than materials in Western collections (with a few exceptions, such as da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine). This work is different enough in scope and content from a 1999 exhibition catalog, Land of the Winged Horsemen: Art in Poland, 1572-1764, to merit inclusion in public as well as academic collections.Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum
About the Author
Laurie Winters is curator of earlier European art at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Leonardo Da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland: A History of Collecting and Patronage FROM THE PUBLISHER
"This book presents an array of Western European and Polish paintings from Poland's most important national and private museums. A testimony to the remarkable history of collecting and patronage in Poland, the book showcases Leonardo da Vinci's magnificent Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani), but also includes important works by Hans Memling, Jusepe de Ribera, Bernardo Bellotto, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-LeBrun, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, and others." In addition to commentary on each painting, the book brings to light Poland's long-overlooked cultural history.
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Library Journal
The catalog of an exhibition organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum that will travel to Houston and San Francisco from December 2002 to May 2003, this book surveys the history of art collecting in Poland since the Renaissance. Edited by Winters, the museum's European art curator, it includes essays by Polish curators and art historians that outline the collecting of Polish and non-Polish art, always in the context of Polish history and geography (and helped by excellent maps). With the disappearance of Poland from the map of Europe in the late 18th century, art, language, religion, and culture became the means of keeping the nation alive. About half the works discussed are Polish (largely 19th- and 20th-century) and will be unfamiliar to many readers; the remainder are European works collected by Polish nobility or royalty, also largely unfamiliar because they are less published than materials in Western collections (with a few exceptions, such as da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine). This work is different enough in scope and content from a 1999 exhibition catalog, Land of the Winged Horsemen: Art in Poland, 1572-1764, to merit inclusion in public as well as academic collections.-Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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