Prof. Dr Hab. Tadeusz J. Żuchowski is the Director of the Institute of Art History of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and member of the following institutions: Board of Trustees of the National Museum in Warsaw, Programme Board of the National Heritage Board of Poland, Committee on Art Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish committees of ICOM, ICOMOS and AICA. He previously worked as a professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and head of the Department of Prints of the National Museum in Poznań. Żuchowski is a researcher of European art with broad interests. He specializes in European residential architecture, Italian Renaissance art, Italian sculpture and German art of the 19th and 20th centuries. A separate area of his research concerns the protection of national heritage and Polish-German artistic legacy. He is the author of, i.a., Poskromienie materii. Nowożytne zmagania z marmurem kararyjskim. Michał Anioł, Bernini, Canova [The taming of matter. Modern struggles with Carrara marble. Michelangelo, Bernini, Canova] (2010); Pałac papieski na Watykanie od końca V do początku XVI wieku. Ceremoniał a ewolucja kompleksu rezydencjonalnego [The Papal Palace in Vatican City between the late 5th and early 16th centuries. Ceremonial versus the evolution of the residential compound] (1999); Patriotyczne mity i toposy. Malarstwo niemieckie 1800–1848 [Patriotic myths and topoi. German painting 1800–48] (1991). He has also curated old and contemporary art exhibitions, such as Christoph Rodde: poza punktem zbiegu / hinter’m Schnittpunkt / beyond the crosspoint (Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń 2007/2008); Words-Pictures. Japanese Calligraphy of Morimoto Seiun’s School (The National Museum in Poznań, 1996).
