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Wystawa „550-lecie Parlamentaryzmu Rzeczypospolitej” w Zamku Królewskim w Warszawie

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Popławski B.

Przegląd Sejmowy

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2019

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issue 1(150)

317–328

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The article reviews the exhibition “550 years of the Parliamentarism of the Republic of Poland” organized by the Sejm Library in the Royal Castle in Warsaw in July and August 2018. It reports the preparations and the course of the opening day. Further, the applied narration is discussed: the chronological-problem arrangement of the exhibition.

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ALEKSANDER GIEYSZTOR, THE FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL CASTLE IN WARSAW

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Mrozowski P.

Muzealnictwo

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2020

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vol. 61

181-191

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Aleksander Gieysztor (1916–1999) was unquestionably one of the most outstanding representatives of the Polish humanities in the 20th century. He considered himself a historian, and his basic workplace was the Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw, while his research focused around mediaeval culture. He became a museum professional slightly against his own will, in the last decades of his career, when taking on the position of the Director of the rebuilt Royal Castle in Warsaw. Despite thinking of himself as a historian, Gieysztor was well prepared to exert the function, since he had always been extremely interested in artistic sources, as important and clear as a historiographer’s narrative or a chronicler’s note. Not only did numerous publications testify to his interest, but he also formulated the programme of the Team for the Research into the Beginnings of the Polish State, which he headed in 1948–1955. Owing to its historical and symbolical significance, the Warsaw Castle took an important position in Gieysztor’s career. He was by Stanisław Lorentz’s side from the very beginning, supporting him in his efforts to have the Castle rebuilt, the project neglected by Poland’s Communist authorities. Having become member of the Civil Committee for Rebuilding the Royal Castle, Gieysztor headed its Archaeological-Historical section. From 1973 he became member of the so-called Castle Curator Board: a team which collegially managed the Castle. Esthetical sensitivity and artistic erudition, as well as a thorough knowledge of old-Polish culture provided Gieysztor with an excellent background to fit with the group of scholars decisive for the shape and educational programme of the reconstructed Castle; later, individually, they allowed him to find satisfaction in the role of the Director heading its furbishing. Gieysztor acknowledged this project to have been his greatest intellectual challenge in the last decades of his academic career. However, he regarded it as his duty: service to society longing for symbols to shape its historical identity.

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A forgotten hero: Jan Morawiński (1907–1949)

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Olkowski R.

Muzealnictwo

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2021

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issue 62

220-226

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Notes of a Curator at the National Museum published in 1970 in the second volume of the book Struggle for Cultural Goods is the only generally available testimony to saving the Wilanów historic monuments by Jan Morawiński, a forgotten hero from the times of WW II. Additionally priceless because of Morawiński documenting the looting of 137 paintings belonging to the pre-WW II Branicki collection at Wilanów. The above-mentioned Notes were published by the Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy after the manuscript kept in the private archive of the author’s daughter Agnieszka Morawińska. The notes, however, resemble pieces of paper torn from a notebook in which an earlier chapter is missing. The missing chapter does exist, yet for unknown reasons was omitted in the two-volume Struggle for Cultural Goods. Warsaw 1939–1945 edited by Prof. Stanisław Lorentz. The present paper is based on Morawiński’s hand-written testimony, supported by archival sources and recollections of his colleagues from the National Museum in Warsaw (MNW). From August 1939 to August 1944, Jan Morawiński, together with others, was involved in saving precious museum exhibits in the Museum building, but also throughout Warsaw. He was involved in packing the historic monuments into crates which were to help them survive the toughest times, and he helped to put out fires at the Museum, risking his own life. Moreover, he rescued the Royal Castle collections during the hardest bombing of Warsaw, transporting them to the storages in Warsaw’s Jerozolimskie Avenue. For his dedication he was awarded the Virtuti Militari Cross of the 5th class by Gen. Juliusz Rómmel. After Warsaw’s surrender, he was assigned Head of MNW’s storerooms and inventories: when Director Lorentz was absent, he acted as his deputy. In the first period of the Nazi occupation he courageously faced German officials. Furthermore, he headed the clandestine action of inventorying and documenting German destructions and plundering. The knowledge amassed in this way was extremely helpful in the restitution of the looted historic monuments, not only museum ones. He also contributed to documenting the destruction of the Warsaw Castle. Imprisoned by the Nazis, he went through Gestapo’s hands at Daniłowiczowska Street in Warsaw. Later on, he became manager of the Museum of Old Warsaw in the Old Town, at the same time acting as a guardian of the Wilanów collection. Following the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising, he participated in the so-called Pruszków Action in whose course he was badly injured.

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The Imperial Theme in Art and Architecture of the Polish Vasas

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Kaufmann T. D.

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki

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2021

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vol. 83

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issue 2

323-349

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Artykuł jest jeszcze jedną próbą analizy dwóch znanych polskich zabytków – Zamku Królewskiego i Kolumny Zygmunta w Warszawie. Postawiono w nim tezę, że oba te dzieła wyrażają treści imperialne nawiązując do wzorca stworzonego przez Habsburgów zarówno dla architektury jak i rzeźby, a jednocześnie modyfikując je tak, by odpowiadały konkretnym dążeniom dynastii Wazów.

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This essay reconsiders two of the most famous monuments in Poland, the Warsaw Castle and the Sigismund Column. It argues that both evoke imperial themes, with reference to a model provided by the Habsburgs for both the architecture and the sculpture, but present them in ways that specifically express the ambitions of the Vasa dynasty.

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Karolina Lanckorońska (1898–2002). W stu dwudziestą rocznicę urodzin

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CHYNCZEWSKA-HENNEL T.

Czasopismo Naukowe Instytutu Studiów Kobiecych

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2018

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issue 2(5)

9-23

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W sierpniu 2019 roku mija 120 rocznica urodzin niezwykłej kobiety. Urodziła się w Wiedniu, jej ojcem był Karol Lanckoroński, kolekcjoner, historyk sztuki, matka Małgorzata Lichnovsky. Karolina Lanckorońska była pod ogromnym wpływem swego ojca i zawsze czuła się Polką. Była historykiem sztuki i jako pierwsza kobieta w Polsce została docentem Uniwersytetu Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie. Podczas II wojny światowej żołnierz AK, aresztowana przez hitlerowców, skazana na śmierć, więziona była w obozie w Ravensbrück. Po wojnie zamieszkała w Rzymie. Poświęciła się pracy dla kultury i nauki polskiej. Była współzałożycielką Polskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Rzymie oraz Fundacji Lanckorońskich z Brzezia. Otrzymała wiele odznaczeń polskich i zagranicznych oraz doktoraty honoris causa Uniwersytetów Jagiellońskiego i Wrocławskiego. Jest autorką wielu artykułów naukowych, wspomnień, redakcji i książki Wspomnienia wojenne. Podarowała na Zamek Królewski w Warszawie oraz na Wawel bezcenną kolekcję dzieł sztuki odziedziczoną po ojcu. Była niezwykłym człowiekiem, niedościgłym wzorem szlachetnej patriotki.

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In August 2019, there is the 120th anniversary of the birth of an extraordinary woman. She was born in Vienna, her father was Karol Lanckoroński, collector, art historian, mother Małgorzata Lichnovsky. Karolina Lanckorońska was under the influence of her father and she always felt Polish. She was an art historian and was the first woman in Poland to become a lecturer (docent) at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. During World War II, being a Home Army soldier, she was arrested by the Nazis, sentenced to death and imprisoned in the Ravensbrück camp. After the war, she lived in Rome. She devoted herself to work for Polish culture and science. She was a co-founder of the Polish Historical Institute in Rome and the Lanckoronski Foundation from Brzezia. She received many Polish and foreign decorations and doctorate honoris causa of Jagiellonian and Wroclaw Universities. She is the author of many scientific articles, memoirs, editors and the book War Memories. She donated to the Royal Castle in Warsaw and to Wawel Castle an invaluable collection of works of art inherited from her father. She was an extraordinary person, an unattainable model of a noble patriot.

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Wystawa „550-lecie Parlamentaryzmu Rzeczypospolitej” w Zamku Królewskim w Warszawie

ALEKSANDER GIEYSZTOR, THE FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL CASTLE IN WARSAW

A forgotten hero: Jan Morawiński (1907–1949)

The Imperial Theme in Art and Architecture of the Polish Vasas

Karolina Lanckorońska (1898–2002). W stu dwudziestą rocznicę urodzin