Artibus et historiae

Artibus et Historiae ( German: the arts and history ) with the addition of type Anthology is the name of a biannual journal publications of the Institute for Art Historical Research ( IRSA, Instituto per le Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte ). Issues of the magazine are the fine arts, especially painting, sculpture and architecture; other media, such as photography and film are also discussed.

Idea

The idea of establishing a new art-historical journal has emerged in the late 1970s. According to the International Congress of the History of Art ( CIHA ) 1979 in Bologna was, on the initiative of the Polish art historian Józef Grabski, realized. Artibus et Historiae closed a gap in the market, because it lacked the time a separate and independent, all eras and disciplines comprehensive, scholarly art-historical journal. The premise of Artibus et Historiae is the interdisciplinary research that will shed light on the relationships of all the possibilities of visual representation, sociology, and iconography.

Publication

The first edition was published in 1980 in Venice. The editorial was moved several times - first to Vienna, then to Florence and finally to Krakow, where it is located since 1996. The world's published magazine celebrates its 30th anniversary with the 60th anniversary edition in 2009., The advisory body to the Artibus et Historiae consists of recognized art historians from around the world. The articles are published in English, German, French and Italian. Those contributions which can not be integrated into the magazine because of its size, are standard published in book form ( Bibliotheca Artibus et Historiae ).

The magazine is published in a square format hardcover and published twice a year. The individual volumes include double counting, both of the vintage in Roman numerals as well as a sequential number counting.

Title

Artibus, in Latin, " the arts " is the address on the pediment of the Polish National Gallery Zachęta in Warsaw, the hometown of Józef Grabski; et Historiae, in Latin and history, is a tribute to Karolina Lanckorońska, Polish art historian, founder of the Institutum Historicum Polonicum in Rome and editor of Polish historical sources.

Logo

The magazine and all other publications of IRSA are provided with the characteristic logo, a little angel, standing on a scale that he himself holds. The design comes from a painting Lorenzo Lotto, a portrait of a 37- year-old man and to the Platonic idea of the balance between the spiritual and the corporeal symbolize a person's life.