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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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...