Justyna Guze is an art historian, graduate of the University of Warsaw. In 1977–79, she taught the history of artistic doctrines at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw, in 1990–91 the history of world art at the Academy for the Dramatic Arts. In 1992–93, as the first secretary of the Polish embassy in Italy, she established and directed the Polish Cultural Institute in Rome. In 1996–2002 she was the editor of Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie. Since 2000 she has written regularly for the Zeszyty Literackie literary journal. At the National Museum in Warsaw she is responsible for Old Italian, especially Venetian, and French drawings. She also specializes in the theory of drawings (i.a., “Książęta i rzemieślnicy. Czy istniała tradycja akademicka w sztuce weneckiej?” [Princes and craftsmen. Was there an academic tradition in Venetian art?], 2001; “Kolor a rysunek w weneckiej krytyce artystycznej XVII w. Marco Boschni” [Colour and drawing in Venetian artistic criticism of the seventeenth century, Marco Boschni], 2002). She has curated exhibitions of drawings in Poland and abroad and written their catalogues (including Tiepolo i tiepoleschi w zbiorach polskich. Rysunki, ryciny, obrazy [Tiepolo and the Tiepoleschi in Polish collections. Drawings, etchings, paintings], 1997; Złoty Dom Nerona. Wystawa w 200-lecie śmierci Franciszka Smuglewicza [Nero’s Golden House. An exhibition on the 200th anniversary of the death of Franciszek Smuglewicz], 2008; Francuskie malarstwo i rysunek XVIII wieku ze zbiorow polskich [Eighteenth-century French paintings and drawings in Polish collections], 2009; Mistrzowie rysunku. Dzieła z kolekcji Barbary Piaseckiej- Johnson [Masters of drawing. Works from the collection of Barbara Piasecka-Johnson], 2010; Chopin. Ikonosfera romantyzmu / Chopin. Iconosphere of Romanticism, 2010); she has written entries on modern French and Italian art for Wielka Encyklopedia PWN (2000–5).
