Prof. Dr Hab. Antoni Ziemba – art historian, lecturer at the University of Warsaw and chief curator of Medieval and Early Modern European Art of the National Museum in Warsaw. He works on seventeenth-century Dutch art, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Netherlandish and German art and the theory of art from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. He is the author of Nowe Dzieci Izraela. Stary Testament w kulturze holenderskiej XVII wieku [Israel’s New Children. The Old Testament in seventeenth-century Dutch culture] (2000), Iluzja a realizm. Gra z widzem w sztuce holenderskiej 1580–1660 [Illusion and realism. Playing with the viewer in Dutch art, 1580–1660] (2005), Sztuka Burgundii i Niderlandów 1380–1500 [The art of Burgundy and the Netherlands 1380–1500], vol. 1: Sztuka dworu burgundzkiego oraz miast niderlandzkich [The art of the court of Burgundy and the cities of the Netherlands] (2008) and vol. 2: Niderlandzkie malarstwo tablicowe 1430–1500 [Netherlandish panel painting, 1430–1500] (2011). He is the co-author of the National Museum in Warsaw catalogue of Malarstwo niemieckie do 1600 roku [German painting to 1600] (2000) and Encyklopedia malarstwa flamandzkiego i holenderskiego [Encyclopaedia of Flemish and Dutch art] (2001). He has conceived or co-authored exhibitions and their catalogues, including Caravaggio „Złożenie do Grobu”: arcydzieło Pinakoteki Watykańskiej. Różne oblicza caravaggionizmu [Caravaggio’s The Entombment of Christ: The masterpiece from the Pinacoteca Vaticana. The different faces of Caravaggionism] (1996), Sztuka cenniejsza niż złoto. Obrazy, rysunki i ryciny dawnych mistrzów europejskich ze zbiorów polskich [Art more precious than gold. Paintings, drawings and etchings by European Old Masters in Polish collections] (1999), Transalpinum. From Giorgione and Dürer to Titian and Rubens (2004), Złoty Wiek malarstwa flamandzkiego: Rubens, van Dyck, Jordaens... 1608–1678 [The Golden Age of Flemish art: Rubens, van Dyck, Jordaens... 1608–1678] (2007), From Van Eyck to Dürer (2010), Wywyższeni. Od faraona do Lady Gagi [The Elevated: From the Pharaohs to Lady Gaga] (2012).
