13(49), 2024

On the 163rd birthday of the National Museum in Warsaw, we are proud to present the lucky thirteenth issue of the Journal, our first digital-only issue. Readers can now also enjoy access to digitized versions of past issues of the New Series, available from the date of the current issue’s premiere.

Issue thirteen opens with Anna Szczepańska’s article devoted to the legacy of the eminent Polish archaeologist Kazimierz Michałowski, held in the NMW Archives. Next in the ‘Museum’ section is an article authored by the curators of the Photography Room in the museum’s Gallery of 19th Century Art, outlining past iterations of the Photography Room’s highly popular rotating exhibition. Tying into a recent show at the NMW, an article by Wojciech Głowacki discusses the Parisian apartments and studios of Józef Chełmoński. Moving on, the section on ancient art features articles on Roman artefacts from the museum’s collection, lost Egyptian artefacts from Wilanów and an ancient victory symbol, the tropaion. Representing early modern art is an analysis of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Adam and Eve authored by a team of curators and conservators from the NMW and chemists from the University of Warsaw. In the final section, covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, we can read about a new perspective on the religious-themed work of Jacek Malczewski in an essay by Michał Haake and about Polish female students of the Académie Julian in a piece by Renata Higersberger. The issue concludes with an article by Katarzyna Chrudzimska-Uhera discussing an album of photographs of sculptures from the State School of Wood Industry in Zakopane.