Between the Romantic Vision of Joris-Karl Huysmans and Scholarly Scrutiny of Émile Mâle. Christian Iconography According to Jan Henryk Rosen (1891–1982)
| Autor: | Joanna Wolańska |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | IKON. 8:177-192 |
| ISSN: | 2507-041X 1846-8551 |
| DOI: | 10.1484/j.ikon.5.107803 |
| Popis: | The painter Jan Henryk Rosen (1891-1982) was a keen student of Medieval Christian iconography at the Sorbonne under Emile Mâle (1912-1913) and also an avid reader of Joris-Karl Huysmans, especially his A Rebours (1884) and La Cathedrale (1898). The mural decoration of the Armenian Cathedral in Lvov (1925-1929), Rosen’s first monumental work, exemplifies the most important features of his style both as far as their content and form are concerned. Despite the high esteem in which he held university education, Rosen was not slavishly obedient to the scholarly established truths. He respected the knowledge acquired at Mâle’s lectures, yet at the same time he reserved the right to artistic liberty and using his own judgement and imagination, fuelled by the Romantic vision of the “soul” of medieval architecture, as imagined by Huysmans in his Cathedral. Rosen’s art was an attempt at reconciling the academic accuracy with the impulsive and poetically charged writings of Huysmans. Conservative as he was, Rosen bo... |
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