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This issue of theBulletin clu Mus.ee National de Vorsovie / oftheNationalMuseum
in Warsaw is dedicated to the memory of Tadeusz Dobrzeniecki, former chief
curator of the Medieval Art Department in our Museum (1973-1991).
Tadeusz Dobrzeniecki (1914-1999) was an outstanding Polish scholar of medieval
art, well known also abroad as the author of fundamental publications, such as his
studies of the iconography of Imago Pietatis, Pieta, Deploration of Christ and
related themes in the Late Middle Ages. He also distinguished himself with his
work on the iconography of Maiestas Domini in Christian Nubia and Western
Europę as well as with his studies on the symbolic meaning of the “Mystic
Crucifixes”. The medieval work of art was always interpreted by him as an object
in a symbolic and functional context. He searched for the reflections of theology,
liturgy and private devotion, all of which he studied with inexhaustible intellectual
energy and profound understanding. He penetrated systematically many fields of
research, from Early Christian and Nubian wali painting and Byzantine icons to
the iconography of Western European art, and to Polish Romanesąue and Gothic
art from the Evangeliary of Gniezno to Yeit StoB. His Catalogue of Mediaeval
Panel Painting in the Collection of the National Museum Warsaw is still the basie
source for all research on attributions and iconography of Silesian, Pomeranian
and Polish art from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.
This issue contains a selection of texts presented at the conference held in
memory of Tadeusz Dobrzeniecki in March 2005 at the National Museum in
Warsaw.
The Editor
in Warsaw is dedicated to the memory of Tadeusz Dobrzeniecki, former chief
curator of the Medieval Art Department in our Museum (1973-1991).
Tadeusz Dobrzeniecki (1914-1999) was an outstanding Polish scholar of medieval
art, well known also abroad as the author of fundamental publications, such as his
studies of the iconography of Imago Pietatis, Pieta, Deploration of Christ and
related themes in the Late Middle Ages. He also distinguished himself with his
work on the iconography of Maiestas Domini in Christian Nubia and Western
Europę as well as with his studies on the symbolic meaning of the “Mystic
Crucifixes”. The medieval work of art was always interpreted by him as an object
in a symbolic and functional context. He searched for the reflections of theology,
liturgy and private devotion, all of which he studied with inexhaustible intellectual
energy and profound understanding. He penetrated systematically many fields of
research, from Early Christian and Nubian wali painting and Byzantine icons to
the iconography of Western European art, and to Polish Romanesąue and Gothic
art from the Evangeliary of Gniezno to Yeit StoB. His Catalogue of Mediaeval
Panel Painting in the Collection of the National Museum Warsaw is still the basie
source for all research on attributions and iconography of Silesian, Pomeranian
and Polish art from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.
This issue contains a selection of texts presented at the conference held in
memory of Tadeusz Dobrzeniecki in March 2005 at the National Museum in
Warsaw.
The Editor