The article takes up the problem of the medieval manuscript as an example of a total work of art. Miniature painting is an example of diffusional transmittance of the various semiotic orders, which define each other and lead to the creation of a reflection of divine beauty and harmony. The text also refers to the problem of iconoclasm. Historical material from the South Slavic area shows the art of cultural borderlands, where elements based on the principle of pars pro to to are reflected in miniature painting. The intersemiotic research tradition is presented synthetically.
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The article takes up the problem of the medieval manuscript as an example of a total work of art. Miniature painting is an example of diffusional transmittance of the various semiotic orders, which define each other and lead to the creation of a reflection of divine beauty and harmony. The text also refers to the problem of iconoclasm. Historical material from the South Slavic area shows the art of cultural borderlands, where elements based on the principle of pars pro to to are reflected in miniature painting. The intersemiotic research tradition is presented synthetically.
This paper focuses on the history of contacts between Leopold Nowotny, a Polish painter of Czech origin who spent almost his entire life in Rome working within the circle of artists associated with Friedrich Overbeck, the Nazarenes movement, and Cyprian Kamil Norwid. In light of the discovered legacy of Nowotny, I contextualise his profile in respect to Rome’s cultural background during the years 1835–1875 and the Polish artistic colony on the Tiber; I also try to shed some light on the links between Nowotny, Norwid, the Odescalchi family, and several cultural and social activists (the circle of ultramontanists). From an ideological perspective, in Nowotny's work an important role was played by way he developed a narrative aimed at building the Slavic and Christian community. Other significant features examined in this paper are the reference to the canon of Nazarene art as well as the attempt to establish his own ideological and artistic canon.
The article is devoted to the discovered Greater Poland Military Museum in Poznań, the unpublished text of the memorial in French, which General Edmund Taczanowski, intended to address to the Turkish Sultan, in the hope of creating Bulgarian-Turkish troops, which were then to be used in battles with Russia.
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