Joanna A. Tomicka – art historian, graduate of the University of Warsaw, post-graduate studies at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1996 she has served as the curator of European prints in the Department of Prints and Drawings of the National Museum in Warsaw. She has conducted research on Netherlandish, Dutch, Flemish and French prints of the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries, the reception of antiquity, humanistic emblematics and typography. She has received scholarships and fellowships from The Warburg Institute (University of London), The British Academy, Centre for Emblem Studies (University of Glasgow), British Museum, Catholic University of Leuven (Flemish Community), Houghton Library (Harvard University), Princeton University Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has authored and co-authored exhibitions and their catalogues, including Ars Mitologica – wokół zagadnień recepcji mitów greckich. Ceramika i rzeźba starożytna. Grafika oraz sztuka zdobnicza XVI–XIX wieku. Wystawa ze zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie (Ars Mitologica. Issues Concerning the Reception of Greek Myths. Ancient Ceramics and Sculpture, European Graphic and Decorative Art of 16th to 19th Centuries from the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw) (1999), Arcydzieło Petera Paula Rubensa „Zdjęcie z krzyża” ze zbiorów Państwowego Ermitażu w Sankt Petersburgu. Z tradycji przedstawień pasyjnych w malarstwie i grafice północnoeuropejskiej XVI i XVII wieku ze zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie [Peter Paul Rubens’s masterpiece The Descent from the Cross from the collection of the State Hermitage in St Petersburg. Images in the North European painting and graphic art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw] (2000), Miłośnicy grafiki i ich kolekcje w zbiorach Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie [The admirers of prints and their collections in the National Museum in Warsaw] (2006), Rembrandt. Rysunki i ryciny w zbiorach polskich. Katalog [Rembrandt. Drawings and prints in Polish collections. A catalogue] (2009). She has published on these topics in Polish and foreign academic journals and organized and participated in conferences in Poland and abroad.
