CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Antique in Polish art and culture from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century: From Franciszek Smuglewicz to Igor Mitoraj
PISnSŚ & SARP, Warsaw – SARP Pavilion, 21 - 23.9.2022
21.9.2022
Opening
Prof. Jerzy Malinowski (PISnSŚ), On research into the tradition of antiquity in Polish art and culture from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century
I.
Dr Małgorzata Biłozór-Salwa (UW), Between documentation and creation: Franciszek Smuglewicz and the inspiration of antiquity
Dr Aleksandra Krypczyk-De Barra (MNK), The sacrifice of a Vestal Virgin: on a particular convention for representing women in European painting at the end of the 18th century on the basis of the “Portrait of Helena née Massalska Potocka” by Franciszek Smuglewicz
Dr Emilian Prałat (MNP, Adam Mickiewicz Museum, Śmiełów), The Smuglewicz family in Śmiełów
Prof. Aleksandra Bernatowicz (IS PAN), Antiquity – the choice of the elite: decorative painting in the era of King Stanisław August: Vincenzo Brenna and others
Dr Marzena Królikowska-Dziubecka (Polish - Japanese Academy of Computer Science; PISnSŚ), Antiquity in drawings by Polish artists at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries
II.
Prof. Ryszard Mączyński (UMK), Approaching the sources: the all’antica Warsaw residence of Prince Stanisław Poniatowski
Dr Tomasz Dziubecki (PB), Eclecticism in architecture: the birth of the phenomenon
Prof. Tadeusz Bernatowicz (UŁ; PISnSŚ), Classicist architecture: taking advantage of an opportunity to occidentalise the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Dr Wioleta Brzezińska (Rural Museum of the Province of Kielce; PISnSŚ), Classicism in Volhynia as an expression of the attraction of the art of antiquity on the basis of selected examples of palace and park architecture from the beginning of the 19th century
Dr Emilia Ziółkowska-Ganc (UMK; PISnSŚ), Antique inspiration in the architecture of Warsaw during the era of Historicism
Dr Piotr Czerkwiński (Museum of the Palace of King John III in Wilanów), The inspiration of Egypt in Polish architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries
III.
Prof. Jurij Biriulow (Lwów National Academy of Art; PISnSŚ), Two eras of inspiration : antique motifs in Lwów art in the years 1800-1840 and 1900-1939
Dr Agnieszka Świętosławska (UŁ; PISnSŚ), A surprising (lack of) presence: mythological subjects in the work of Lwów artists in the first half of the 19th century
Lidia Gerc (UMK; PISnSŚ), Antique motifs in the art of Artur Grottger
Katarzyna Jarzyńska (UW), Neoclassicism in the sculptural work of Jakub Tatarkiewicz
Dr Jakub Zarzycki (UWr.; PISnSŚ), Pictures, likenesses, discourses: the reception of the antique in the Polish illustrated press during the years 1859-1914 – project of research
22.9.2022
IV.
Dr Iwona Dorota (University of Milan), The antique landscape of Italy in the epistolography of Zygmunt Krasiński
Prof. Agnieszka Bender (KUL; PISnSŚ), Baldassarre Odescalchi on Antiquity
Dr Dominik Ziarkowski (UE, Kraków; PISnSŚ), Antiquity and classical models in the artistic historiography of Józef Łepkowski
Dr Mariola Kazimierczak (Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau), Masterpieces of the art of Antiquity from the collection of Michał Tyszkiewicz
Pauline Walkiewicz (École de Louvre), Ancient Greek terracotta figurines – from the Parisian art-market to the Polish collectors Jan Działyński (1829-1880) and Michał Tyszkiewicz (1828-1897): a source of inspiration?
Dr Ewa Skotniczna (UPJP2) & dr Adam Korczyński (PAU), The monuments of ancient Rome in photographs from the collection of Karol Lanckoroński as an indication of artistic culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
V.
Prof. Michał Haake (UAM), The symbolism of the painting “The Harlot” by Henryk Siemiradzki
Dr Maria Nitka (ASP Wrocław; PISnSŚ), Antique vase painting as a compositional source for the idylls of Henryk Siemiradzki
Dr Barbara Ciciora (MNK), The idylls of Henryk Siemiradzki: from autobiographical themes to the ideal of beauty
Dr Grzegorz First (UJP2; PISnSŚ): Between Egypt and Rome: Cleopatra and other Egyptian and Eastern themes in Polish painting
Dr Dorota Gorzelany-Nowak (MNK; PISnSŚ), The reconstruction of Antiquity: painted wall decorations in the paintings of Stefan Bakałowicz
VI.
Prof. Krzysztof Stefański (UŁ), Antique motifs in Polish architecture at the beginning of the 20th century
Dr Filip Chmielewski (MNK; PISnSŚ), Imperceptible antique motifs… “antiquing” heraldic signs on interwar Kraków mansions and “classical” motifs in Polish paintings and prints in the 1920s and 1930s
Piotr Fałat (Warsaw), Antique models in the architecture of Warsaw in the first half of the 20th century (to 1939)
Dr Błażej Ciarkowski (UŁ), The Marescialli Forum: the influence of Imperial Rome on the shaping of public space in Poland in the 1930s
Prof. Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Zaporozhye National Technical University), Antique tradition in contemporary sacral architecture of the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands
23.9.2022
VII.
Dr Ewa Ziembińska (MNW; PISnSŚ), In pursuit of order: the idea of New Classicism and Polish sculptors in Paris
Łukasz Żuchowski (UW), Dunikowski’s antique?: problems regarding the influence of the antique tradition in the context of “Self-portrait: I Walk Towards the Sun” (1917/1920)
Dr Piotr Chabiera (PISnSŚ), The competition for the monument to Duke Witold in Wilno: the unrealised project by Ludomir Sleńdziński in the spirit of the New Classicism
Dr Małgorzata Geron (UMK; PISnSŚ), Antiquity and the New Classicism in the work of Tymon Niesiołowski
Dr Katarzyna Bogacka (SGGW), Italian episcopal rings from the 20th and 21st centuries in Polish artistic culture
VIII.
Prof. Eleonora Jedlińska (UŁ; PISnSŚ), “I am Odysseus, returning from Troy…”: Tadeusz Kantor and his reception of the “Odyssey”
Prof. Jerzy Uścinowicz (PB; PISnSŚ; SARP), Between Greece and Rome: contemporary transpositions of antique ideas: new theatres in Gardzienice
Dr Przemysław Kaniecki (UW), The Throne of Hades in “The Ascension” by Tadeusz Konwicki
Dr Grzegorz First (UJP2; PISnSŚ), Antiquity in Polish narrative films: from literature and archaeology to the image (participation in a discussion)
Joanna Wojciechowska-Kucięba (Lublin), Antique ornamentation in historical films (“Faraon”, “Quo Vadis”)
IX.
Paulina Adamczyk (MNW; PISnSŚ), The territory of the antique: the paradox of Plato’s chariot?
Dr hab. Małgorzata Stępnik (UMCS; PISnSŚ), The Sphinx and the Gorgons: the psychoanalytical “bestiary” in contemporary Polish art
Dr Agnieszka Jankowska-Marzec (ASP Kraków), In the face of Antiquity: the paintings of Kinga Nowak
Prof. Jan W. Sienkiewicz (UMK; PISnSŚ), Antiquity and Pop Art: the sculptural work of Michał Jackowski
Dr hab. Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek (UŁ), The Post-Classicism of Igor Mitoraj
Prof. Teresa Grzybkowska (PISnSŚ), The Medusa of Igor Mitoraj
Conclusion of the conference
