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April 24, 2000
Jan Ostrowski Land of the Winged Horsemen: Art in Poland, 1572–1764 Yale University Press, 1998. 380 pp.; 190 color ills.; 54 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300079184)
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Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, March 2-May 9, 1999; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, June 5-September 6, 1999; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, September 25-November 28, 1999; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, December 18, 1999-February 27, 2000; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, March 25-June18, 2000; The Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Summer 2000.

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Given the relative difficulty of transporting a collection of such extraordinary breadth and national importance, it is not surprising that the last American exhibition of Polish art from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries took place close to thirty years ago. While readers may be familiar with its fairly limited catalogue, as well as important later texts such as Jan Bialostocki’s The Art of the Renaissance in Eastern Europe and Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s recent Court, Cloister...