Description

Gavrash Irina et al, Polish Institute of World Art Studies

TAKO Publishing House
30 cm, 433 p., photographs, half leather binding

A comprehensive study of the work of Henryk Siemiradzki, one of the most prominent representatives of Polish academism. The book attempts to analyze his paintings in the context of the artistic currents of the time, especially academism, which dominated European art in the 19th century. The authors and editors of the work present not only the artist’s biography, but also his relationship with the artistic environment of the time, his influence on the development of history painting and his place in Polish and world art.

The book comes from a bibliophilic thematic sub-collection of some 500 specialized titles on Polish painting of the 19th and 20th centuries. A copy in a fine leather binding made in the bindery of the Polish Antiquarian.