Ikonotheka Tom 22/2009 East Meets West

Spis treści: Introduction List of contributors I. Between Greek East and Latin West. Historic Monuments and Historical Constructs Milena Bartlová, Icon-like images in Bohemian Medieval Art Aleksandra Sulikowska-Gąska, At the Crossroads of Traditions: Orthodox Church Painting in the Reign of the Jagiellons Giedre Mickunaite, Maniera Graeca in Europe`s Catholic East: Byzantine Paintings in the Parish Church of Trakai, Lithuania Elza Tantcheva, At the Crossroads of East and West: Donor Portraits in the Church of the Nativity of Christ in Arbanassi, Bulgaria Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, East and West Perspectives in the "Greek Manner" in the Early Modern Period II. Between Italy and the Netherlands. Import and Exchange of Ideas Ivan Gerát, Traditions and Innovations: Pictorial Lives of Saint Elizabeth in Central Europe in the Late Fifteenth Century Jeannie Łabno, The monumental body and visual presentation of the child in Renaissance Poland Ewa Letkiewicz, Reflections on identification and attribution of the sixteenth-century portraits. Identification of the unknown portrait of "Sierotka" Radziwiłł at the Louvre and attribution of his known Strasburg portrait Aleksandra Lipińska, Display, adaptation, absorption. Customising of Southern Netherlandish alabaster sculpture in Silesian epitaphs (ca. 1550-1720) Péter Farbaky, The Camaldulian Hermits in Baroque Hungary: An Eastern Idea in Western Transformation III. The Baltic Sea. The End of the World or the Centre of the Peripheries Rachel King, Whale's sperm, maiden's tears and lynx's urine: Baltic amber and the fascination for it in early modern Italy Kevin E. Kandt and Gerd-Helge Vogel, Christoph Maucher in Danzig: Episodes from the Life of a Baroque Wanderkünstler in Central Europe and Some Observations on the Social Status of Artists During the Early Modern Period Peter Martyn, Recapitulating the Rise and Irreversible Decline of Urban Culture in Danzig Pomerania (alias the Polish Corridor)