Last week the National Museum in Warsaw published the first volume of the Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw. New Series. The new series is a successor to former periodicals by the museum: Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie / Annuaire du Musée National de Varsovie [Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw] and Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie. The first issue holds an extensive section of “Neerlandica”.

From the introduction by Agnieszka Morawińska, Director of the National Museum in Warsaw

[…] for many years the National Museum in Warsaw had its own periodicals, Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie / Annuaire du Musée National de Varsovie [Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw] and Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie. In this 150th anniversary year, we have resolved to bring back one of our museum’s best traditions. […]

In choosing to resume our predecessors’ work after this long break, and wanting to combine the best features of Rocznik and Bulletin, we needed to decide what form this new periodical would take. After intensive discussions we adopted the title Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw. New Series and determined that it would be bilingual, Polish-English, and appear as a single volume. […]

Let me introduce to you the first in the new series of the Journal and to invite you to contribute to it, whether you are an art historian, a conservator or a specialist in another discipline wanting to share the results of your research and your reflections about subjects relevant to the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, issues in conservation or topics in contemporary museum affairs.

Contents of Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie. Nowa Seria / Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw. New Series 1(37)

 

Agnieszka Morawińska, Introduction

Part I – The Museum

Antoni Ziemba, The Newly Refurbished Galleries of European Old Masters and of Old Polish and European Portraiture

Iwona Danielewicz, The Gallery of 19th-Century Art

Dorota Ignatowicz-Woźniakowska, Jan Matejko’s The Battle of Grunwald: The Story of the Painting’s Peregrinations and Conservation Up to 1999

Krzysztof Pomian, Antoni Ziemba, Grażyna Bastek, The Exhibition “The Elevated: From the Pharaohs to Lady Gaga” (17 May – 23 September 2012)

Jiři Fajt, Susanne Jaeger, The International Exhibition “Europa Jagellonica” – A Meeting of Old and New Europe (10 November 2012 – 27 January 2013)

Part II – Neerlandica

Joanna Sikorska, Schongauer’s Echo in the Polish Herbal of 1568 by Marcin Siennik

Hanna Benesz, The Temptation of St Anthony from the National Museum in Warsaw and the Landscape with the Legend of St Christopher from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg – an Attempt at Interpretation and Attribution

Piotr Borusowski, Peeping through the Keyhole: Leonaert Bramer’s Perspectyfkas

Filip Chmielewski, The Judgement of Midas from the Lublin Province Museum – an Early Work by Gerrit van Honthorst?

Antoni Ziemba, Modus Rusticus as a Model of Dutch Social Identity in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portrait Painting: A Painting by Govaert Flinck in the National Museum in Warsaw

Iwona Maria Stefańska, Conservation of Portrait of a Man in a Dark Costume by Govaert Flinck in the National Museum in Warsaw

Aleksandra Janiszewska, The Construction of Places of Collective Memory: Jan van der Heyden and Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde’s Views of Amsterdam and Haarlem

Joanna A. Tomicka, Bequest from the Fondation Custodia in Paris to the Library of the National Museum in Warsaw

Gerdien Verschoor, The Friendship between CODART and the National Museum in Warsaw

Part III – Reminiscences

Janina Wiercińska, Dr Aleksandra Krzyżanowska (24 June 1928 – 11 April 2012)

Monika Dolińska, Professor Jadwiga (“Jagoda”) Lipińska (29 November 1932 – 4 October 2009)

Agnieszka Morawińska, Zofia Małgorzata Płomińska (23 January 1937 – 9 June 2011)

Hanna Benesz, Maria Skubiszewska (31 March 1930 – 13 April 2011)

Antoni Ziemba, Krystyna Secomska’s Research on Old Masters Paintings

Bibliography

Elżbieta Lewczuk, Bibliography of Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie for the years 1938–1992 (I–XXXVI)

Anna Pietruczenia, Bibliography of Bulletin du Musee National de Varsovie for the years 1960–2009 (I–XLIII)