7 | Sacrum et Decorum

Introduction

The Editors As the divisions separating individual academic disciplines have progressively dissolved over the past few decades, the scope of possible research has widened accordingly and new perspectives have emerged, especially within the broadly understood...

Philip Larkin’s Church Going and Ronald Stuart Thomas’s Empty Church – Agnostic vs. Apophatic Space

Przemysław Michalski Cracow, The Pedagogical University Abstract: English literature prides itself on a splendid tradition of religious verse, starting with the medieval Dream of the Rood, through its flourishing in the Baroque (John Donne, George Herbert) to include...

“One by one we look at them”. The experience of an encounter with a religious image in poems by Jakub Ekier

Katarzyna Szewczyk-Haake Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University Abstract: The poems by Jakub Ekier constitute a case that is quite rare in contemporary poetry: the case when poems referring to religious paintings build, via those paintings, their own way to the truths of...

Stations of the Cross: The sacred space and space sacralisation in the context of modern modern sculptural achievements

Grażyna Ryba Rzeszów, University of Rzeszów Abstract: The essence of sacred art, especially of modern one, can be captured primarily via an analysis of religious and artistic phenomena, in which their visual realisation is only one of the elements. The paper...

Jerzy Nowosielski’s religious projects and works in the churches of the Eastern rite in Wrocław

Krystyna Czerni Cracow, Jagiellonian University Abstract: Jerzy Nowosielski (1923–2011) was one of the most outstanding Polish painters of the 20th century. His oeuvre also includes many projects in the field of monumental religious art. Born to an Orthodox family in...

Adam Stalony-Dobrzański’s stained glass windows for the Orthodox churches in Wrocław

Anna Siemieniec Wrocław, University of Wrocław Abstract: After World War 2, Wrocław was one of the cities that received the Orthodox population of Poland, forcibly relocated from the eastern territories. Thus, a need arose to create parishes for the new inhabitants,...

Georgia O’Keeffe – the cross in the New Mexico landscape

Leszek Makówka Katowice, University of Silesia Abstract: The criticism of Georgia O’Keeffe’s output focuses on abstract paintings. The author of the paper states that numerous paintings by O’Keeffe with the motif of the cross against the New Mexico landscape...

Previously unpublished letters of Henryk and Karol Marconi at the Getty Research Institute

Andrzej Betlej Cracow, Jagiellonian University Abstract: The purpose of the article is to discuss the correspondence between Warsaw artists Henryk and Karol Marconi, and a Roman sculptor and architect, Luca Carimini. Found at the Getty Research Institute in Los...

Aesthetic and architectonic paradigms in Vienna church architecture at the turn of the 20th century

Inge Scheidl Vienna, independent scholar Abstract: Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg monarchy and the seat of its rulers, in the 19th century became a metropolis, and the rocketing city population necessitated the building of many new churches. One of the most...