Kasia Pisarek (born Katarzyna Krzyżagórska) is an art expert in London, specializing in

Old Masters In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master")Old Masters De ...

Education

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

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. She holds several academic degrees. She was educated at the

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, and at the

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. At the

she was awarded a master's degree in Art History (1984) and she then studied for a Doctorate in Art History at the

. Having submitted a dissertation on Rubens and Connoisseurship: On the problems of attribution and rediscovery in British and American collections (late 19th-20th century) (in English), she was awarded a Ph.D. in Art History (2009). She also completed a course on restoration of The Old Masters' paintings in Paris at the studio of Andre Mielniczek in Paris.

Career

Dr. Pisarek has lived and worked as an art historian and an art expert in North Africa, Paris, Rome, Milan, and the UK. She currently lives across Europe with her family. Her particular areas of interest are

Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...

Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consid ...

, and

J. M. W. Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulen ...

. Dr. Pisarek has 20 years experience in researching Old Masters paintings specifically in the area of attributions. She works between London, Vienna and Warsaw as an independent scholar/art expert and researcher. Her research on Rubens' controversial painting, ''Samson and Delilah'', from the

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, and the activities of

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, the prominent Rubens expert, was published in the ''

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'', and other European and American broadsheets. Dr. Pisarek is the book editor for the London magazine, '' ArtWatch UK Journal'', which monitors and campaigns for better practices in the conservation of art works. She is also an art critic for the Polish art magazine, '' Sztuka.pl'' in Cracow, and ''Barok'' in Warsaw. She covers major art exhibitions and has over forty full-length articles published to date as well as two books. Dr Pisarek was mentioned in the New York Times regarding Leonardo's '''La Bella Principessa

Languages

Pisarek speaks fluent English, French, Italian and Polish and some Russian, Spanish and Arabic.

Publications

Pisarek has published two books: # ''The English Way of Life'' (''Życie po angielsku''),Warsaw, 2005; # ''Life of the English Upper Classes'' (''Życie wyższych sfer w Anglii''), (Warsaw, 2011) and numerous articles including: # 'Pod schodami - 400 lat portretow brytyjskiej sluzby', ''Barok''. Historia-Literatura-Sztuka, XII/2, 24, (2005); # 'The Samson and Delilah - a question of attribution', ''ArtWatch UK Journal'', n. 21, spring (2006); # 'Appraising today's appraisers', ''ArtWatch UK Journal'', n.22, Autumn (2007) # 'Is Connoisseurship in crisis?' ''The Jackdaw, A Newsletter for the Visual Arts'', n. 70, July/August (2007); # 'The Man who Re-invented the Louvre', ''ArtWatch UK Journal'', n.23, Spring (2008). # 'Rubens: mistrzowskie poczatki', ''Barok, Historia-Literatura-Sztuka'', XIII, 25, (2006); # 'Powrót ‘Samsona i Dalili’ do Antwerpii', ''Barok, Historia-Literatura-Sztuka'', XV/1 (29) (2008) # 'Pricing the Masterly touch', ''ArtWatch UK Journal'', n. 26, summer (2010); # 'Turner: Early Oils' (forthcoming);

References

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