Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). Aristocrat, Diplomat, and Patron of the Arts
Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). Aristocrat, Diplomat, and Patron of the Arts

Author: Michał Mencfel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-04-04

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9004508457

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This book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy aristocrat, a Pole in the Prussian diplomatic service, an active participant in and perceptive observer and critical commentator on political life, a connoisseur and art collector of European renown, and the author of ground breaking studies on German and Portuguese art – in short a distinguished and fascinating nineteenth century figure.

Sofonisba's Lesson
Sofonisba's Lesson

Author: Michael W. Cole

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0691198322

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"Within a span of seven or eight years in the 1550s, the Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola produced more self-portraits than any known painter before her had in a lifetime. She was the first known artist in history to take her parents and siblings as primary subject matter, and may have painted the first group portrait featuring only women. Cole examines Sofonisba's paintings as expressions of her relationships and networks, looking at why Sofonisba was able to become a great woman artist: at her father, who decided to allow her to be educated as a painter; at her teacher, Bernardino Campi; and at her relationships with her students, sisters, and patrons, who included the Queen of Spain. Cole demonstrates that Sofonisba made teaching and education a central theme of her painting. The book also provides the first complete catalogue of all of Sofonisba's known works"--

Chessplayers
Chessplayers

Author: Konstanty Kalinowski

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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The works in this Sinebrychoff Museum exhibition catalogue come mainly from the great nineteenth-century private collections of the Polish counts Atanazy Raczynski and Seweryn Mielzynski. Paintings by Lorenzo Monaco, Giovanni Boccati, Jacopo Palma il Vecchi, Sofonisba Anguisciola, Bronzino, Domenichino, Pietro Liberi, and Stanzione and others are annotated and interpreted. -- Summary written by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.