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ALEKSANDRA BARBARA LIPIŃSKA
(b. 1973, Lubin, Poland)
Art History Institute, University of Wrocław
ul. Szewska 36, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland
0048713752226 (office), 0048713283840 (home), 0048602450629 (mobile)
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION:
2003 PhD
art history
2002 MA
Dutch philology
1998 MA
art history
University of Wrocław, Art History Institute
Dissertation: Importy południowoniderlandzkiej rzeźby
alabastrowej Europie środkowo-wschodniej [Imports of
Southern Netherlandish Alabaster Sculpture in Central and
Eastern Europe 1530-1650]
University of Wrocław, Erasmus Chair of the Netherladish
Studies
Thesis: Jacob Rehdiger (1543-1589) - een
prentenverzamelaar en bibliofiel [Jacob Rehdiger (15431589) – collector of prints and bibliophile]
University of Wrocław, Art History Institute
Thesis: Wyroby manufaktury alabastru w Mechelen z drugiej
połowy XVI i pierwszej ćwierci XVII wieku w zbiorach polskich
[Works of Mechelen alabaster manufacture in Polish
collections (1550-1625)]
AREAS OF RESEARCH:
Netherlandish, German & Polish Early Modern sculpture, esp. Southern
Netherlanish alabaster sculpture.
Cultural exchange: transfer of works, artists, ideas & techniques.
Questions of material meaning.
EMPLOYMENT & TEACHING EXPERIANCE
2005-present
Head of the Postgraduate Studies in Art History, Art History
Institute University of Wrocław
2004-present
Assistant professor, Chair of the Renaissance and
Reformation Studies, Art History Institute, University of
Wrocław
1998-2003
Teaching assistant, Art History Institute, University of
Wrocław
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COURSES TAUGHT:
Lecture courses
Polish Renaissance Art, Polish Baroque Art
Survey courses
History of Art Techniques, History of Costume
Seminars
Language of Sculpture
Proseminars
Renaissance art, Material of Sculpture
Practicum
Introduction to sculpture, Auxiliary sciences of art history,
Summer Field Practicum
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2010-2012
Curator & co-editor of a catalogue of the exhibition Matter of
light and flesh. Alabaster in the Netherlandish sculpture of
the 16th and 17th centuries, National Museum in Gdańsk in
collaboration with Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Koninklijke
Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussels and
Skulpturensammlung, Berlin
http://www.alabaster-wystawa.pl
2011-present
Participant of an emerging project Artists on the Move.
Sculptors from the Low Countries in Europe 1450-1650, in
collaboration with Frits Scholten (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Arjan de Koomen (Universiteit
van Amsterdam), Eveliina Juntunen (Universität Bamberg).
2007-present
Habilitation project: Material in cultural context. The
alabaster case.
2005-2010
Participant of an international research project Bild und
Konfession. Funktionen und Konzepte von Bildern in den
gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Formierungsprozessen des
konfessionellen Zeitalters in Mitteleuropa,
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum für Geschichte und Kultur
Ostmitteleuropas in Leipzig
Organization of conferences:
2007
Material of Sculpture. Between Technique and Semantics,
international conference, Wojnowice
2005
Heritage of the Reformation in the Duchy of Legnica and
Brzeg, international conference, Legnica
1999
Center and Peripheries, conference of Polish students of art
history, Wrocław
HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS (since PhD):
Apr.-june 2011
Museum Guest Scholar, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Sept.-Nov. 2010 Visiting grant of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar,
Netherlands
2009-2012
Research grant of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher
Education for habilitation thesis
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Feb. 2010
2009
2009
Sept. 2008
Mar.-June 2008
Nov. 2007
2003-2004
Research grant of the Foundation of Lanckoroński de Brzezie,
London
Award of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education
for the doctoral book
Grant of the Foundation for Polish Science for the translation
of the doctoral book into English
Research grant, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Fellowship of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation East-Central
European Research at the Herzog August Bibliothek,
Wolfenbüttel
Research grant of the Lanckoroński Foundation, Rome
Domestic Grant for Young Scientists of the Foundation for
Polish Science
PARTICIPATION IN THE CONFERENCES (since PhD, selected ):
15-17 June 2012 Brothers in Collecting: Thomas and Jacob Rhediger – Two
16th Century Silesian Art Collectors and Bibliophiles,
International Conference “Early Modern Merchants as
Collectors”, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
5-8 June 2012
Marbre blanc qu‟on dit albastre. Italian marble versus
transalpine alabaster in the 16th century Low Countries
sculpture, International Conference “Carrara Marble and the
Low Countries, Late Middle Ages-2012”, Rome & Carrara, The
Academia Belgica, The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome &
The Low Countries Sculpture Society
22-34 Mar. 2012 Judas of Meissen versus Atillus Regulus. The tomb
of Elector Moritz of Saxony in Freiberg Cathedral, RSA Annual
Meeting Washington DC 2, panel: Early Modern Sculpture in
Northern Europe
8-10 Jun 2010
Chair of the session Patterns of Devotion, “Häuslich persönlich - innerlich. Bereiche der privaten
Frömmigkeitsausübung im späten Mittelalter und der frühen
Neuzeit“, Interdisziplinäre Tagung des Kunsthistorischen
Instituts der Universität Leipzig, GWZO Leipzig & Lehrstuhl
für Kirchengeschichte an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Jena, Universität Leipzig
27-29 May 2010 “Bastard marble” or “Corpus Christi vulneratum”. On the
aesthetics of alabaster, International Conference The
Aesthetics of Marble: from Late Antiquity to the Present,
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
8-10 Apr. 2010
Netherlandish Sculptors as Artistic Intermediaries in Central
and Northern Europe, ca. 1550–1650, 56. Annual Meeting of
the RSA, Venice, session: Agents, brokers, and
intermediaries: the circulation of art works in the early
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13-15 Mar. 2009
30 Sep.-2 Oct.
2009
21-26 Sep. 2009
7-10 Mar. 2008
13-18 Jan. 2008
21-22 Nov. 2008
14-16 Mar. 2008
6-7 Sep. 2007
15-17 June 2007
17-18 Feb. 2006
modern period (1500-1650)
Decline, break or continuation? Southern Netherlandish
alabaster sculpture in the 17th century, Seventeenth-century
sculpture of the Low Countries from Hendrick de Keyser to
Jean Del Cour, Low Countries Sculpture Society, Brussels
„Trespur et treslimpide alabastre‟. The role of alabaster in the
16th century French sculpture, Sculpture française du XVIe
siècle, Institut national d‟histoire de l‟art, Paris
Auf neue Art sehen und antasten? Mechanismen der
Entstehung von der Materialbedeutung am Beispiel des
Alabasters, Studienkurs Material-Wissen. Visuelle und taktile
Experimente in Kunst und Industrie, Kunstgeschichtliches
Seminar der Universität Hamburg
Southern Netherlandish Alabaster Sculpture of the 16th and
early 17th Century and its Spread, Renaissance Sculpture of
the Low Countries in the Age of Jacques Du Broeucq (ca.
1505-1584), Low Countries Sculpture Society, Mons
„Alabastrum effoditur pulcherrimum & candissimum‟. The
influence of imported Southern Netherlandish sculpture on
the reception of alabaster in Central Europe in the sixteenth
century, 32nd CIHA Congress, Melbourne; session Materiality
Across Cultures
Südniederländische Alabasterplastik um 1525-1650.
Massenproduktion, Anpassung, Aneignung, 5. RenaissanceKolloquium, Universität Leipzig
„… Ein tafell von Alabaster zu Antorff bestellen.“
Südniederländische Alabasterplastik um 1525–1650:
Massenproduktion, Verbreitung, Wirkung, 1. Tagung
Luxusgegenstände und Kunstwerke in Mittelalter und Früher
Neuzeit: Produktion - Handel - Formen der Aneignung;
Schwabenakademie Irsee
Display, adaptation, absorption. Customising of Southern
Netherlandish alabaster sculpture in Silesian epitaphs (ca.
1550–1720), International conference East meets West at the
Crossroads of Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex
Vom Kultbild bis zum Kunstwerk und...zurück. Am Beispiel
der südniederländischen Renaissance-Alabasterplastik in
Ostmitteleuropa, Colloque international De l'objet cultuel à
l'œuvre d'art: l'évolution de l'art en Europe du XIVe au XVIIe
siècles, Université Marc Bloch, Strassbourg
Vom Familienmausoleum zur Heiligenkreuzkapelle.
Funktionsumwandlung eines exponierten Raumes im Dom zu
Posen, Workshop Bild und Konfession: Strategien
individueller Aneignung von sakralen Räumen. Kontinuitäten
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9 Nov. 2004
1-3 Oct. 2004
24-28 Aug. 2004
26-29 Nov. 2003
LANGUAGES:
PROFESSIONAL
2010-present
2008-present
2008-present
2004-present
2004-present
und Umbrüche vom Spätmittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit,
GWZO Leipzig
Poeci czy malarze? Kultura werbalna i wizualna jako składniki
tożsamości Polaków, Belgów i Holendrów (w ujęciu
porównawczym) [Poets of painters? Verbal and Visual Culture
as Elements of the Identity of Poles, Belgians and
Dutchmen], Regionaal Colloquium Midden-Europa Culturele
identiteit in het nieuwe Europa, Warsaw
Mass Production of Sculpture and its Consequences. The Case
of Southern Netherlandish Alabasters Preserved in Central
Europe, Art History at the Crossroads, Conference of the
Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, Budapest
Reproducing sculpture. Consequences of mass art production
– the case of Southern Netherlandish alabasters preserved in
Central Europe, 31st CIHA Congress, Montreal, poster session
Adaptations of Imported Southern Netherlandish Alabaster
Sculpture in the Baltic Area in the Second Half of the
Sixteenth Century, On the Opposite Sides of the Baltic Sea.
Relations between Scandinavian and Central European
Countries, International conference, University of Wrocław
English, German, Dutch (fluent reading, writing, speaking)
French, Russian (read and understand with ease; basic
speaking ability)
Italian, Spanish, Latin (read)
MEMBERSHIPS:
Arbeitskreis Niederländische Kunst & Kulturgeschichte
Renaissance Society of America
Low Countries Sculpture Society
Polish Association of Art Historians
Polish Society for Reformation Research
PUBLICATIONS
Book published
Wewnętrzne światło. Południowoniderlandzka rzeźba alabastrowa w Europie
Środkowo-Wschodniej [Inner light. Southern Netherlandish Alabaster Sculpture
in Central and Eastern Europe], Wrocław 2007, 580 pp, 247 figs.
Rev. by Jeffrey Chipps Smith, "Renaissance Quarterly". vol. LXII, no 2, summer
2009, pp. 544-546.
Books forthcoming
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Moving sculptures. Southern Netherlandish alabasters from the 15th to 17th
centuries and their spread in Central and Northern Europe, Waanders , series:
Studies in Netherlandish Art and Culture, reviewed by Herman Roodenburg &
Frits Scholten [winter 2012]
„Sztuką utajone‟. Materiał w kontekście kulturowym. Przypadek alabastru
[Disguised by Art. Alabaster as Material in Cultural Context], University of
Wrocław Publishers [spring 2013]
Jacob Rehdiger (1543-1589). Wrocławski bibliofil i kolekcjoner grafiki [Jacob
Rehdiger (1543-1589). Wroclaw Bibliophile and Collector of Prints], ATUT [spring
2013]
Books & journals edited
Materia światła i ciała. Alabaster w rzeźbie niderlandzkiej XVI i XVII wieku /
Matter of Light and Flesh. Alabaster in the Netherlandish Sculpture of the 16th
and 17th centuries. Exh. Cat., National Museum in Gdańsk, 15.11.2011 –
15.03.2012, ed. by J. Kriegseisen & A. Lipińska, Gdańsk 2011, 360 pp, 170 figs.
Materiał rzeźby. Miedzy techniką a semantyką / Material of Sculpture. Between
Technique and Semantics. Acts of an international conference, ed. by A.
Lipińska, Wrocław 2009, 606 pp.
Dziedzictwo reformacji w księstwie legnicko-brzeskim / Das Erbe der
Reformation in den Fűrstentűmern Liegnitz und Brieg, Acts of an international
conference ed. by J. Harasimowicz & A. Lipińska, Legnica 2007, 422 pp, 84 figs.
Centrum i peryferie. [Centre and peripheries]. Acts of art history students‟
conference, ed. by A. Lipińska, Wrocław 2003, 155 pp, 27 figs.
„Dzieła i Interpretacje” 5 (1998), ed. by M. Kapustka & A. Lipińska
Articles & book chapters (selected)
Articles published
Matter of Light and Flesh. Alabaster in the Netherlandish Sculpture of the 16th
and 17th centuries (essay) & 32 catalogue entries, in: Materia światła i ciała.
Alabaster w rzeźbie niderlandzkiej XVI i XVII wieku / Matter of Light and Flesh.
Alabaster in the Netherlandish Sculpture of the 16th and 17th centuries., National
Museum in Gdańsk, 15.11.2011 – 15.03.2012, ed. by J. Kriegseisen and A.
Lipińska, Gdańsk 2011, pp. 12-61 (essay).
Dwa niderlandyzmy – wrocławski i lwowski. Na przykładzie rzeźby wrocławskiej i
lwowskiej 1550-1625. Pytania i dezyderaty [Two Netherlandisms – as seen in
the Wrocław and Lviv sculpture 1550-1625. Questions and Desiderata], in:
Między Wrocławiem a Lwowem. Sztuka na Śląsku, Małopolsce i na Rusi Koronnej
w czasach nowożytnych, ed. by A. Betlej, K. Brzezina, P. Oszczanowski, Wrocław
2011, pp. 61-73.
Display, adaptation, absorption. Customising of Southern Netherlandish
alabaster sculpture in Silesian epitaphs (ca. 1550–1720), in: East meets West at
the Crossroads of the Early Modern Europe: Artistic Inspirations & Innovations
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(Ikonotheka 22), ed. by G. Jurkowlaniec & J.J. Labno, Warszawa 2010, pp.139150
Cursu completo. Grabmäler und Epitaphe schlesischer Glaubensflüchtlinge im
südlichen und südwestlichen Großpolen, “Archiv für Schlesische
Kirchengeschichte“ 67 (2009), pp. 77-106 [with Aleksandra Bek-Koreń].
„Alabastrum effoditur pulcherrimum & candissimum‟. The influence of imported
Southern Netherlandish sculpture on the reception of alabaster in Central Europe
in the sixteenth century, in: Crossing cultures. Conflict-Migration-Convergence.
The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art, ed. by
J. Anderson, Melbourne 2009, pp. 482-486.
„Polished alabaster of Carrara‟. Written sources and the meaning of sculpture
material, in: Materiał rzeźby. Miedzy techniką a semantyką / Material of
Sculpture. Between Technique and Semantics, ed. by A. Lipińska, Wrocław
2009, pp. 295-312.
Na nowo patrzeć i dotykać? Znaczenie tradycyjnych materiałów w plastyce
współczesnej na przykładzie użycia alabastru w XX i XXI w. [To look and touch
anew? The meaning of traditional materials in the modern and contemporary
sculpture. On the example of alabaster in the 20th and 21st centuries] (2 parts),
Quart 3(13) & 4(14) (2009), pp. 3-18 & 3-17.
„...Ein tafell von Alabaster zu Antorff bestellen‟: Southern Netherlandish
alabaster sculpture in central Europe, “Simiolus” 32. 2006 (2008), 4, pp. 231258.
Zagadkowa fundacja opata Freibergera, czyli o lubiąskim przypadku "recyklingu"
alabastrowych reliefów [Mysterious commission of Abbot Freiberger. On the
Lubiąż case of "recycling" of alabaster reliefs], in: Lubiąż i artyści. Materiały
konferencji naukowej w 300-lecie śmierci Michaela Willmana, ed. by A. Kozieł,
Wrocław 2008, pp. 153-175.
Mass Production of Sculptures and its Consequences. The Case of Southern
Netherlandish Alabasters Preserved in Central Europe, “Acta Historiae Artium”
48 (2007), pp. 273-280.
Adaptations of Imported Southern Netherlandish Alabaster Sculpture in the
Baltic Area in the 2nd Half of the 16th Century, in: Po obu stronach Bałtyku.
Wzajemne relacje między Skandynawią a Europą Środkową / On the Opposite
Sides of the Baltic Sea. Relations between Scandinavian and Central European
Countries, ed. by J. Harasimowicz, M. Wisłocki, P. Oszczanowski, Wrocław 2006,
pp. 347-356.
Kultura werbalna i wizualna jako składniki tożsamości Polaków, Belgów i
Holendrów w ujęciu porównawczym [Verbal and Visual Culture as Elements of
the Identity of Poles, Belgians and Dutchmen (with Kris van Heuckelom), in:
Wielokulturowość - międzykulturowość obszarami edukacyjnych odniesień, ed.
by A. Szerląg, Wrocław 2005, pp. 517-528.
„Oltář malej s řezbami a vnitř alabastr‟. Zbiory niderlandzkiej renesansowej
plastyki alabastrowej w Czechach [„A small altar with sculptures and an
alabaster inside‟. Collection of Low Countries Renaissance Alabaster Sculpture in
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Czech Republic], in: Wrocław w Czechach - Czesi we Wrocławiu. Literatura Kultura - Język, ed. by. Z. Tarajło-Lipowska, J. Malicki, Wrocław 2003, pp. 265271.
Południowoniderlandzkie ołtarze alabastrowe 1550-1560 w zbiorach europejskich
[Southern Netherlandish Alabaster Altars 1550-1560 in European Collections],
in: Niderlandyzm na Śląsku i w krajach sąsiednich [Netherlandism in Silesia and
the Neighbouring Lands], ed. by M. Kapustka, A. Kozieł, P. Oszczanowski,
Wrocław 2003, pp. 180-193.
Mechelse Albasten in Polen, “Handelingen van de Koninklijke Kring voor
Oudheidkunde Kunst en Geschiedenis van Mechelen“ 106 (2001), pp. 87-151
Mecheleńskie reliefy alabastrowe w Polsce [Mechelen alabaster reliefs in Poland],
“Rocznik Historii Sztuki” 26 (2001), pp. 183-232.
Dzieło sztuki masowej produkcji - narzędzie konkurencji wyznań czy towar: Na
podstawie przykładów importów plastyki alabastrowej do Polski i krajów
sąsiednich [Work of art of mass production - a tool of the competition of
denomination or merchandise? On the example of imports of southern
Netherandish alabaster sculpture to Poland and neighboring countries], in:
Sztuka i dialog wyznań w XVI i XVII w., ed. by Jan Harasimowicz, Warszawa
2000, pp. 209-221.
Ołtarz dawnego kościoła Joannitów w Słońsku [Altarpiece of a Joannite church in
Słońsk]. In: Dzieła i Interpretacje IV (1996), pp. 155-170, 19 fig.
Articles forthcoming
„Alabastrum, id est, corpus hominis‟. Alabaster in the Low Countries sculpture. A
cultural history, “Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art” 62: Meaning in
materials [2012]
Stylo novo sepultus? Grabdenkmäler des großpolnischen Adels und des hohen
Klerus im Spannungsfeld zwischen ständischen Repräsentation und
konfessionellen Selbstverständnis (book chapter), in: W. Eberhard, E. Wetter
(eds.), Bild und Konfession Funktionen und Konzepte von Bildern in den
gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Formierungsprozessen des konfessionellen
Zeitalters in Mitteleuropa, Leipzig, 105 pp. [2012]
Madonna z Trapani w zbiorach Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie [Madonna of
Trapani in the collection of the National Museum in Szczecin], „Materiały
Zachodniopomorskie. Rocznik Naukowy Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie”
[2012]
Südniederländische Alabasterplastik um 1525-1650: Massenproduktion,
Verbreitung, Wirkung, in: Luxusgegenstände und Kunstwerke vom Mittelalter bis
zur Gegenwart: Produktion - Handel - Formen der Aneignung, ed. by A. Tacke et
al., Trier [2012].
Reviews
Dagmar Eichberger, Aleksandra Lipińska: Häuslich – persönlich – innerlich.
Bereiche der privaten Frömmigkeitsausübung (Universität Leipzig, 08. Lipińska CV
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10.07.2010). In: H-ArtHist, Jan 12, 2010 (accessed Nov 9, 2011),
<http://arthist.net/reviews/579>.
Adriaen de Vries Symposium, Stadthagen 16-18 April 2008, Quart 2(8)/2008,
pp. 119-123.
Angripare-Försvarare. Wrocław-utställningen över Sveriges Novaro i
Mellaneuropa 1600- och 1700-talet, Barock. Historia-Litteratur-Konst 2007, pp.
241-244.
On the opposite Sides of the Baltic Sea. Relations Between Scandinavian and
Central European Countries, Acta Poloniae Historica 90 (2004), pp. 221-225
Exhibition and catalogue: Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im
Norden in Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloß Brake, Lemgo and Koninklijk
Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Tussen stadpaleizen en luchtkastelen) as well as
in Rubenshuis (De wereld is een tuin) in Antwerp, Dzieła i Interpretacje, VIII
(2003), pp. 167-175.
Translations (from Dutch into Polish)
Frits Scholten, Śpiąca nimfa / Sleeping nymph, in: Matter of Light and Flesh...
Cat. Gdańsk [ibidem], p. 176-179.
Emile van Binnebeke, Portret arcyksięcia Ferdynanda Habsburga/ Portrait of
Archduke Ferdinand Habsburg, in: Matter of Light and Flesh... Cat. Gdańsk
[ibidem], p. 106-109.
Emile van Binnebeke, Dyptyk z popiersiami / Diptych with busts, in: Matter of
Light and Flesh... Cat. Gdańsk [ibidem], p. 182-183.
Marcel van Jole, Współczesna sztuka belgijska. Między konstruktywizmem a
figuracją / Contemporary Belgian art. Between constructivism and figuration,
International Cultural Centre Krakow 2008.
Marcel van Jole, Frans Masereel. Odkrywanie mistrza / Frans Masereel.
Discovering the Master, International Cultural Centre Krakow 2005.
Marcel van Jole, James Ensor 1860-1949. Grafika i malarstwo / James Ensor
1860-1949. Prints and Paintings, International Cultural Centre Krakow 2002.
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