The Byzantine Influence on the Italian Renaissance

Author(s): Ionut Alexandru Plescau / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In the 15th century, there was a massive emigration from Byzance to Italy. Because of the Ottoman Empire, the intellectual elite of Byzantine scholars started to come with their families, by sea, to Venice and Florence. We have some Scholars émigrés who influenced the culture and the thinking process of their time, in Italy. They were Manuel Chrysoloras, Georgios Gemisthos Pletho, and others. They brought thousands of manuscripts, and with Cosmos’s help, they achieved academic jobs. Even Marsilio Ficino recognized that The Platonic Academy in Florence was a project started with Gemistos Plethon, the famous Platonist professor. Also The Florence Council (1438 – 1439) was a cultural revelation between two different civilizations. By the presence of the Byzantine intellectuals in Italy, the Latins experienced a new form of meditation on the world and on the purpose of life. In particular, the return to Greek culture and ancient ideas triggered the desire of freedom in the Quattrocento thinkers. Some revolutionary ideas have taken shape in the aristocratic houses of Tuscany, Venice and Rome. It happens that some groups of scholars gather around Byzantine masters, such as Ioannes Arghyropoulos, or Bessarion. Thanks to the generosity of Cosmo de Medici and his family, many young people could afford a comfortable life dedicated to study and scientific research. Some Latin, others Byzantine.

Brak obrazu jako obraz: pamięć medium i gry z toposem pustego płótna w wideomalarstwie

Author(s): Marta Smolińska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Medytatywność wideo (Mariny Abramović Portrait with golden mask)

Author(s): Magdalena Długosz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Infermental. Pierwszy międzynarodowy magazyn na kasetach wideo (1981–1991)

Author(s): Tomasz Załuski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

Krzysztof Penderecki, Pieśni chińskie i Kadisz. Między pięknem natury a grozą historii

Author(s): Regina Chłopicka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the text is on the one hand to show the composer’s attitude toward the issuesraised in the compositions, and his inspirations and references to different cultural traditionson the other. The interpretation of Pieśni chińskie is an attempt to read composer’sattitudes toward nature, inspired by a different cultural tradition of the Far East. Kadisz, onthe other hand, gives rise to noticing composer’s attitude to the tragic character of historicalevents. It is reflected in Krzysztof Penderecki’s special reference to two traditions: a Christianand Jewish one, maintaining their otherness. The first and third part of Kadisz, though beingdifferent in nature, derive from the tradition of European music. The first part Szła śmierć ismournful in character and refers to the European genre of the hymn with an orchestra andconstitutes a form of continuation of the music language and an existential nature of theEighth Symphony. The third part Prosimy Cię, abyś nas na wieki nie wydawał... raises the issueof an idiom of the sacred music for choir a cappella again, deriving from the Renaissance-Baroque tradition. The second and fourth part are inspired by a religious Jewish tradition.The former „Leży na ziemi...” due to a recitation and sublime performance of theBiblical text bring the visions of dangerous reprimands and calls voiced by the prophets ofthe Old Testament. The final part Kadisz Jatom, performing the role of a culmination ofa dramatic and expressive whole of the text, refers directly to expressive and ritual Jewishsongs connected with the danger of a historical event.

Bracia czescy w Polsce — wspólnota w Zelowie i jej dziedzictwo muzyczne

Author(s): Piotr Dahlig / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents the history of the Czech minority living in Zelów in Central Poland(Sieradz district) and constituting an Evangelical-Reformed parish there. A historical backgroundof this ethnic-religious group is connected with religious persecution and forced emigrationof Czech brothers, mainly from Silesia, starting from the 18th century. Zelów, boughtby the community in 1803, became a multicultural, as well as a Czech-Polish-German-Jewishtown in the 19th century and remained so until the World War II. The Czech specialty wasweaving (a weaving shuttle is seen in the present-day emblem of Zelów) from the beginningof the 19th century. After 1945 only 10% of the interwar Czech population remained inZelów. Today, about five hundred Czechs constitutes 7% of Zelów inhabitants altogether.The culture of religious singing is the most important symbol of Czech identity. Liturgicalsinging was directed by a cantor cocreating (?) a religious-social-national communityfrom the beginning of the 19th century to 1945. Choirs (?), also the four-voice ones, wereformed in the second half of the 19th century. Religious song books, including Baptist ones,used until recently, come from the end of the 19th century. A church choir, presently rare,cultivates singing in Czech. Choir members know a sacred repertoire as well, however, itplays a secondary role as daily life is also shaped by clustered religious attitudes derivingfrom the practices of an extremely minority confession. Apart from a vocal culture, a teamviolin, mandolin and guitar playing was practised in the interwar period. Recently, children’smusicality has been reflected in the activity of an orchestra of (one-handed) bells (Zelowbells), it being the only one in Poland.

Tradycyjne pieśni poranne i wieczorne żyjące w pamięci cieszyńskich ewangelików

Author(s): Arleta Nawrocka-Wysocka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The phenomenon of singing morning and evening prayers is inscribed into theProtestant tradition. The section of songs assigned to day-time appeared for the first time ina German-speaking song book of Czech brothers published in 1531 by Michael Weisse.From that time he was given a special place in subsequent cantionals and Protestant songbooks. The oldest morning and evening songs, likewise the ones connected with the calendarand church festivals, were maintained in a hymn style, but gained a more sophisticatedform with time. Despite the fact that they were played during church services, their mainpurpose was a private prayer at home. Performing a function of a private prayer, the verysongs became more sensitive to the influence of a folk performing style and diverged fromcanonic versions adjusting to the records in song books and chorale books. Thus, theyshould be perceived as a repertoire shaped and modified by an oral tradition to a greater extentthan for example songs connected with a church calendar. Meanwhile, the 19th and20th century chronicles, memoires, and works published in Cieszyn Silesia contain little informationon a daily singing at home. The lack of the research material on the performingpractice of the Evangelic song, strongly evident especially in the light of dynamically developingstudies in Scandinavian and Baltic countries, gave rise to the need of conducting terrainobservations, the aim of which was just a registration of traditional, old songs, includingmorning and evening ones.In the course of research as many as 130 songs, morning and evening prayers, out of500 registered altogether, were recorded. The biggest collection of texts involving 68 items,created for the purposes of performing them during morning prayers (37 songs) and eveningprayers (31 songs) contains a cantional by Jerzy Heczko. A comparison allows for makinga statement that Heczko took many of these texts from the subsequent editions of theCzech cantional by Jerzy Trzanowski.