Ars temporis sui testimonium, Ten Essays in Art History The administrative map of Luxembourg Province with labels, Belgium. ISBN: 978 83 89831 39 2Description: hardback, 283 pp. (28,5x22cm), ills. Condition: newWeight: 1365g. Stanislaw Mossakowski, Ars temporis sui testimonium, Ten Essays in Art History, Irsa, Krakow 2020This book consists of ten articles, written in English, German, French and Italian, between 1962 and 2016. The papers, which discuss subjects ranging from medieval art to the Baroque, have been selected as the authors most representative studies and deal with the history of architecture and art in relation to the contemporary realm of religious, philosophical, and scientific ideas. At the same time, the works discussed here are not only treated as products of the skills and talents of individual artists creators but also as an expression of the wishes of their recipients and in particular of the wishes and culture of their patrons. PrefaceI La Porte de bronze de Gniezno et la Chronique polonaise de matre VincentII The Symbolic Meaning of Copernicus SealIII Raphaels St. Cecilia. An Iconographical StudySupplementTrent anni dopo: ricerche sul significato della Santa Cecilia di RaffaelloIV La perduta decorazione astrologica del Palazzo Reale di Wawel a CracoviaV Il contesto europeo del palazzo di Wawel a Cracovia. Napoli Urbino Buda PragaVI Gli anni romani di Giovanni Battista Gisleni e la sua memoria nella chiesa di S. Maria del PopoloVII Il mausoleo dei Morstin a Varsavia e legittologia del SeicentoVIII Die plastische Dekoration des Krasiski Palastes in Warschau (16881699). Thematik, literarische und bildnerische Vorlagen. Anteil des Auftraggebers Jan Dobrogost Krasiski, des Architekten Tilman van Gameren und des Bildhauers Andreas SchlterIX Zwischen Rom, Mnchen und Warschau. Unbekannte Zeichnungen des Architekten Enrico ZuccalliX Die Kurfrstenkapelle Fischers von Erlach im Breslauer Dom