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Kraków – Troja : geografia wyobrażona Stanisława Wyspiańskiego
Subtitle:Kraków – Troy : Stanisław Wyspiański’s imaginative geography ; Architektura w mieście, architektura dla miasta : przestrzeń publiczna w miastach ziem polskich w "długim" dziewiętnastym wieku ; Zabór austriacki
Creator: Contributor:Łupienko, Aleksander (1980– ) : Editor ; Zabłocka-Kos, Agnieszka (1957– ) : Editor ; Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla
Publisher: Place of publishing: Date issued/created: Description:p. 219-237 ; 24 cm ; Abstract in English
Type of object: Subject and Keywords:cities and towns - Poland - history - 19th c. ; cities and towns - Poland - history - 1900-1945 ; architecture and society - Poland - history - 19th c. ; architecture and society - Poland - history - 1900-1945 ; Wyspiański, Stanisław (1869-1907) - criticism and interpretation ; Wyspiański, Stanisław (1869-1907) - and Kraków ; Zamek Królewski na Wawelu (Kraków, Poland) - in art ; acropolis ; Troy (extinct city) - in literature ; Troy (extinct city) - in art ; Wawel (Cracow, Poland) ; Schliemann, Heinrich (1822-1890) - influence
Abstract:The article focuses on Stanisław Wyspiański’s geo-poetry and imaginative topography of the city of Kraków. The artist’s characteristic and creative thinking about the city and its vicinity was presented in relation to his epistolary, dramatic, poetic, and plastic works. Kraków, and especially Wawel, central to the city’s topography and history, appear here as Troy and Troas. The main thesis in the article is the identification of Wawel Hill with the Trojan Mount made by Wyspiański, and not with the Athenian Acropolis, which was regarded as obvious and certain in historical and artistic studies into the artist’s works made so far. The author, in reference mainly to literary studies on Wyspiański (among others by Tadeusz Sinko and Ewa Miodońska-Brookes) and his poetical imagination as well as works by the artist himself, re-evaluates the traditional and well-established reading of projected, architectural and urbanistic collaboration between Wyspiański and Władysław Ekielski in the form of the text “Acropolis. Wawel Reconstruction Project” published by the latter in the “Architekt” periodical in 1908, afterWyspiański’s death. What emerges from the interpretation presented here is the view of Krakówas the new Troy rather than the new Athens.
Start page: End page: Resource type: Detailed Resource Type: Resource Identifier: Source:IH PAN, call no. II.14682 ; IH PAN, call no. II.14681 Podr. ; click here to follow the link
Language: Language of abstract: Rights:Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license
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Digitizing institution:Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Original in:Library of the Institute of History PAS
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