Franciszek Smuglewicz – a painter becoming a scholar. Research excerpts from the catalogue: Old Master Drawings. From the 15th Century to the 1820s. Polish school: S. Lecture by dr Małgorzata Biłozór-Salwa
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The promotion of catalogues assumed the organisation of scientific conference and the presentation of original works in the Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library. Unfortunately, these plans has been modified due to the restrictions on public activity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, authors have prepared audiovisual materials; short videos and longer recorded lectures on chosen aspects discussed in their publications. Videos will be presented in a chronological order, starting with the 16th-century Barthel and Sebald Behams’ prints. In the following weeks, drawings by the Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch Schools’ masters will be presented, then works of Polish draughtsmen active in the 18th and 19th century and finally the architectonical and decorative drawings by Tilman van Gameren.
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Małgorzata Biłozór-Salwa, Franciszek Smuglewicz – a painter becoming a scholar. Research excerpts from the catalogue: Old Master Drawings. From the 15th Century to the 1820s. Polish school: S
The notion Doctus artifex was used to describe the artist-scholar, which means someone who was not only a talented craftsman but also the one who “lives from the works of intellect”. In 1797 Franciszek Smuglewicz founded and conducted the first Polish Institute of Drawing and Painting at the University of Vilnius. Małgorzata Biłozór-Salwa, the Author of the catalogue, describes the artistic development of this “professor public painting” on the example of his drawings.
Published: 24 November 2020