The aim of the paper is to highlight some aspects of two artistic objects which are well known in the Slovak art-historiography and also to open the topic for further discussion. The first object is one of the oldest works of Slovak art and it belongs to a set of gilded bronze plaques from the Old-Slavonic fort of Bojná near Nitra, which dates back to the beginning of the 9th century. The second object discussed here belongs to another set of plaques which make up what is to this day known as the Monomachos Crown, dating from the 10th to the 12th century, and which were found in Ivanka near Nitra.
The article offers information on the exhibition The 200 Years of the Fine Arts Academy Munich and the resulting extensive publication (589 pp.), both organized and published in 2008. It concentrates on the role of the academy in pursuing artistic progress in 19th century painting with a specific stress put on contacts with the environment in Eastern Europe (e.g. painters Mihaly Munkacsy, Laszlo Mednaszky).
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