Quart Nr 2(56)/2020
u ↪Q art Nr 2(56)/2020 1. J. G. Ringlin acc. to F. B. Werner, Vienna/Wien, after 1748, copperplate 20,5 x 29,5. For: A. Marsch, Friedrich Bernhard Werner, Weiβenhorn 2010, p. 216, no. 12 /48/ Quart 2020, 2 PL ISSN 1896-4133 [s. 48-69] Vienna and its works of art in the eyes of Polish travellers in the second half of the 17th and first half of the 18th century Małgorzata Wyrzykowska University of Wrocław Introduction The purpose of this article is to present how Polish travellers in the second half of the 17th century and first half of the 18th century evaluated Vienna and its works of art. Previous studies on the perception of European works of art within Polish travel literature of the second half of the 17th and first half of the 18th century have focused on the dominant artistic centres of the time, such as Italy and France1. The art of the capital of the Habsburg monarchy remained somewhat beyond the spectrum of researchers’ inter- ests, even though the proximity of Vienna and Warsaw was determined not only by political and military alliances, but also by dynastic relations. Vienna, with the Habsburg Empire’s Court, was the destination of numerous diplomatic visits by Poles, and as an important centre of academic life it attracted many students from the Rzeczypospolita2. However, for the majority of Polish travellers, a stay in the capital of the Habsburg monarchy was only a stage of their journey to the south of Europe. The accounts of those travellers, especially in the 17th century, are in a small part devoted to the eval- uation of the city’s monuments, focusing rather on the political and social aspects of their stays.
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