„Niezbędna zbieżność słowa z demonstracją”. Projekcja diapozytywów w nauczaniu historii sztuki na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim (ok. 1900–1950)
“The Indispensable Convergence of the Word with the Demonstration”. Slide Projec- tion in Teaching Art History at the Jagiellonian University (ca. 1900–1950)

Summary/Abstract: The introduction of slide projection as a method of illustrating lectures is considered an important moment in the development of art history, as it established the value of photography as a fundamental research tool and teaching aid within the discipline. The aim of this article is to present the circumstances under which this method was implemented at the Department of Art History of the Jagiellonian University and how its collection of lantern slides came into being. The first Cracow art historian to use a projector device during his lectures was Feliks Kopera, at the beginning of the 20th century. However, it was not until the early 1930s that this tool was used on a wider scale, when, on the initiative of Tadeusz Szydłowski and Julian Pagaczewski, two epidiascopes were purchased and lantern slides began to be collected. By the outbreak of the Second World War, the collection had already reached several hundred slides. New conditions for its development emerged after the war, when a large and varied set of lantern slides was acquired from the Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Breslau. This made it possible to create a set of reproductions that provided a comprehensive overview of works of medieval and modern art. The period under analysis in this article ends with the establishment of the photographic atelier of the Department of Art History at the Jagiellonian University in 1950 and the beginning of the in-house production of slides.

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