Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie (40.1999)

2. Commemorative
photograph of
professors:

Władysław Tomkiewicz,
Stanisław Lorentz,
Władysław Tatarkiewicz,
and Mieczysław Wallis
(from left to right)
atthe Łazienki Pałace

without a knowledge of Lorentz’s research. His study during the occupation
and immediately after the war resulted in the published studies in Meander
about the reception of antiąuity in Polish art at the end of the eighteenth
century: “O polskich zbieraczach waz antycznych Domus Aurea Nerona i Willa
Laurentina”,4 an essay on Polish participation in archaeological work conducted
in Romę in the 1770s,5 as well as “Sarkofag Scypiona w Polsce i polskie badania
archeologiczne w okresie wczesnego klasycyzmu” in the joint work Epoka
Peryklesa.6 His research in this field constitutes some of the basie work on the
antiąue tradition in seventeenth and eighteenth century European art.

Ehe significance of Natolin for research on the Polish grand tour has
already been mentioned; several shorter works by Lorentz on the ąuestion
of the reception of antiąuity in Poland in the eighteenth century have
likewise been significant for study of le grand tour. Poles were by no means
absent among the multitude of aristocrats visiting Italy, particularly in the
second half of the eighteenth century. Among the most well-known Polish
participants in le grand tour one should mention Izabella Czartoryska
Lubomirska, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Stanisław Poniatowski, the King’s
nephew, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, and Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski. In his
books and essays, as well as in his evaluations of doctoral and habilitation
dissertations, Lorentz emphasised the significance of these Italian voyages

4 Meander, 1947, II, 1.

5 Ibid, 1947, I, 6.

6 Warsaw, 1949.

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