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Józef Grabski
Dr. hab. Józef Grabski (born 1950) is a Polish born art historian, he is also a director of the Institute for Art Historical Research IRSA since its founding in 1979, also a publisher and editor-in-chief of ''Artibus et Historiae''. Life and work Grabski was born in 1950 in post-war Warsaw. After attending the Lycée Français in Warsaw (1968), Grabski studied art history at Warsaw University (1968-1972) and graduated under the supervision of Professor Jan Białostocki, specializing in the iconography of Venetian Renaissance painting. Grabski was chosen by Henryk Stażewski (laureate of the Herder Prize in 1972) to be awarded the Herder Prize scholarship. After several scholarships (including the Karolina Lanckorońska scholarship), and research stays at the Fondazione Cini (Venice), Grabski continued to study art history and philosophy at the University of Vienna and gained his Ph.D. in 1976 on the subject of Leon Chwistek and " zones theory," under the supervision of Herman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish People
Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common History of Poland, history, Culture of Poland, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe. The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizenship, citizens of Poland, regardless of heritage or ethnicity. The majority of Poles adhere to Roman Catholicism. The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,512,000 (based on the 2011 census), of whom 36,522,000 declared Polish alone. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the ''Polish diaspora, Polonia'') exists throughout Eurasia, the Americas, and Australasia. Today, the largest urban concentrations of Poles are within the Warsaw metropolitan area and the Katowice urban area. Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
