The institutionalisation of Slovenian art history began in 1913, when France Stele (1886-1972), a student of Max Dvořak (1874-1921), was appointed the conservator of the province of Carniola. It became fully established in 1919, when, after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the University of Ljubljana was founded. The paper analyses the activities of three art historians, in addition to France Stele also Izidor Cankar (1886-1958) and Vojeslav Mole (1886-1973), who shaped Slovenian art history between the two world wars. After the end of World War II, all aspects of life were completely subordinated to the Soviet system of the one-party communist state. Ideological suitability was the only standard of acceptability, also at the university. In the immediate post-war period, the older generation of art historians, who were educated in the Western European tradition, mostly in Vienna, were placed in a completely new ideological-political context, which has highly influenced the development and methodology of the discipline until the present day.
COBISS.SI-ID: 38174509
Monograph is the first complete overview of the architecture from ca. 1790 until 1918 in territory of Slovenia. In the first, analytical part, the historical circumstances, style and architectural development, urbanism, protection of monument and especially history of various building types including comparison with other Central European architecture are presented, the catalogue brings the information about the most important buildings from the above mentioned period in the Republic of Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 276146688
The pedestal and the four statues of the Doctors of the Church reveal that the altar was a half-size copy of the Cathedra Petri, the altar made 1657–1666 by Gianlorenzo Bernini in the apse of St Peter’s basilica in Rome. The Dobrova altar, made mainly after the reproduction in the book Numismata Summorum Pontificum by Filippo Bonanni (1696), also followed the Roman example also in the architectural frame which is partly preserved and proves that the altar plan had been made already before the church building was begun. The initiator of the ambitious project was probably Canon Francis Gottfried Pillichgrätz, administrator of the Dobrova church and since 1725 the Dean of the Ljubljana Cathedral Chapter.
COBISS.SI-ID: 39559981
In 2016 a systematic evidence of the legacy of the Ptuj painter Albin Lugarič (1927–2014) took place. Beside already known and for several times exhibited and published works of art a lot of paintings, which the author did not presented publically, have been registered. The fund of drawings is especially huge. The new focus onto the oeuvre of the artist enabled new interpretations of the Lugarič’s creativity, new comparisons with the Lugarič’s contemporaries as well as new ways of valuation of the art production in North-East Slovenia could be established. In North-East Slovenia the circumstances for the artistic creativity differed from the situation in central Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 22796808
A chapter in the proceedings on early modern art market, published by German publishing House Michael Imhof Verlag, is the first study of attributions and valuations of paintings in 17th and 18th century in Inner Austria in a wider sample of archival records. It bases on the analysis of records of attributed paintings extracted from ca. 400 probate inventories of Carniolan and Styrian aristocracy dating between the mid-17th and mid-18th century. The comparison of inventory valuations with prices of paintings sold on the local market (such as paintings sold by the Flemish art dealing company Forchondt to collectors in Styria) reveals discrepancies. Although inventory valuations do not reveal actual price range of paintings and are as such biased, they – when properly interpreted and contextualised – offer a valuable insight into collecting preferences, level of connoisseurship and reception of individual artists and subject matters.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40805165