The National Museum in Warsaw announces the publication of the second volume of its 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.

CONTENTS

PART I – THE MUSEUM

ANTONI ZIEMBA, ZOFIA HERMAN
“The New Gallery of Medieval Art of the National Museum in Warsaw”

MONIKA DOLIŃSKA, TOMASZ GORECKI, ANDRZEJ REICHE, ALFRED TWARDECKI
“The Collection of Ancient and East Christian Art and Archaeological Excavations of the National Museum in Warsaw”

DOROTA IGNATOWICZ-WOŹNIAKOWSKA
“The Story of Jan Matejko’s The Battle of Grunwald in 1999–2012”

PAULINA MIŚ
“The National Museum in Warsaw Incunabula Collection”

PIOTR KIBORT
“The Collection of Architectural and Technical Drawings at the Department of Prints and Drawings of the National Museum in Warsaw: Existing Research and New Research Perspectives”

PIOTR P. CZYŻ
“’The Jubilee of Ignacy Łopieński on the 50th Anniversary of His Creative Activity.’ About an Exhibition that Did Not Take Place at the National Museum in Warsaw in 1939”

PART II – LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ART

JAN BIAŁOSTOCKI
“Art’s Humility and Irreverence vis-a-vis the Sacrum”

ALEKSANDRA SULIKOWSKA
“Icons of John the Baptist in the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw: The Angel’s Body, a Martyr’s Death, Holy Remains”

ZOFIA HERMAN
“Jakob Beinhart’s Saint Luke Painting the Virgin in the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw. Artistic Self-Reflection versus the Cult Function”

ANTONI ZIEMBA
“Time and Place in a Story Told by a Painting. The Jerusalem Triptych from Gdańsk: Issues of Narration and Iconography”

PIOTR BORUSOWSKI
“Esther before Ahasuerus: A Design for a Tapestry by Pieter Coecke van Aelst”

HANNA BENESZ
“Maarten van Heemskerck and Pieter Saenredam. Cooperation between the National Museum in Warsaw and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles”

PART III – ART OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

MIKOŁAJ GETKA-KENIG
“The Anonymous Coronation of Empress Alexandra as Queen of Poland (1829–30). A Pictorial Vision of National Resurrection, or the Two Aspects of Illusion”

ANNA KOZAK
“Nazarene Friendship Portraits by Nineteenth-Century Silesian Painters”

EWA FRĄCKOWIAK, ELŻBIETA ROSŁONIEC
“La Place des Martyrs et la Taverne du Bagne of 1885 by Felix Buhot. Historical Research and Material Testing of Its Celluloid Plate”

JUSTYNA GUZE
“Bloch’s and Wokulski’s Paris. Drawings by Charles Tronsens in the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw”

ANNA GROCHALA, EWA MARTYNA
“The January Uprising of 1863 and Its Fighters in the Cameos from the Collection of Henryka Capelli, nee Dzieduszycka. The Reception of Graphic and Photographic Prototypes”