Research Catalog

Title

Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874) : Aristocrat, diplomat, and patron of the arts / by Michał Mencfel ; translated by Thomas Anessi, in collaboration with Małgorzata Olsza.

Author

Mencfel, Michał

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

Anessi, Thomas

Description

xv, 554 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"This book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy aristocrat, a Pole in the Prussian diplomatic service, an active participant in and perceptive observer and critical commentator on political life, a connoisseur and art collector of European renown, and the author of ground breaking studies on German and Portuguese art - in short a distinguished and fascinating nineteenth century figure"--

Uniform Title

Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874). English

Alternative Title

Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874).

Subject

• Raczyński, Atanazy, hrabia, 1788-1874
• Art historians > Poland > Biography
• Diplomats > Poland > Biography
• Statesmen > Poland > Biography
• Art historians
• Diplomats
• Statesmen
• Poland

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-532) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Polyoptric Portrait -- 2. Sources -- 3. State of Research -- 4. Acknowledgements -- pt. 1 Formation -- 1. Grandfather Kazimierz Raczynski -- 1. His Guardian's Long Shadow -- 2. Traitor? -- 3. Family and Fatherland -- 4. Three Principles -- 2. Brothers -- 1. No One Else -- 2. Mirror -- 3. Herr Bruder, Write to Me -- 4. My Poor, Poor Brother! -- 3. Apprenticeship and Journeyman Years -- 1. The Fist, Rod, and Cane, or Education -- 2. ̀A Model Young Pole' -- 3. In Warsaw Circles -- 4. Smelling of the Antechamber -- 4. Rapture -- 1. Wasteful Times -- 2. Melancholy Self-Portrait -- 3. Wertherism -- 4. A Keen Eye -- pt. 2 Politics -- 5. The Aristocrat -- 1. Decorum -- 2. Estate -- 3. A Scandalous Picture: The Fiasco of Family Politics -- 4. Manifesto: The Portrait Gallery in Gaj -- 6. Political Creed -- 1. The Flight from Warsaw in 1794: The Spectre of Revolution -- 2. The Last Absolutist -- 3. Attitude towards the November Uprising in the Kingdom of Poland -- 4. Cara Patria: Being Polish as a Burden and a Challenge -- 7. A Pole in Berlin -- 1. Decision -- 2. ̀A Nobleman of the First Class' -- 3. A Good Catholic and a Pole -- 4. The Old Count -- 8. Diplomat -- 1. Early Endeavours -- 2. The Power of Circumstances or ̀a Place Apart'? -- 3. Iberia -- 4. Friendships: Juan Donoso Cortes and Alphonse de Brotty d'Antioche -- pt. 3 Art -- 9. Raczynski as an Artist -- 1. Picturesque and Sublime Nature -- 2. The Romantic Landscape -- 3. Travel Notes -- 4. Views of Architecture -- 10. Aesthetic Views, Writings on Art, Patronage -- 1. Basic Concepts: Beauty and Taste -- 2. Modern German Painting -- 3. Writings on Art -- 4. Raczynski's Friend Wilhelm Kaulbach -- 11. Collector -- 1. The Queen of the Elves -- 2. Italian Journey -- 3. A Single Goal -- 4. Contemporary Painting -- 12. The Gallery -- 1. A Temple to Art -- 2. A Joint Undertaking: The Gallery in Poznah -- 3. A Small but Tasteful Picture Gallery -- 4. The Museum: 2 Exercierplatz.

Call Number

JFE 23-2067

ISBN

• 9789004504660
• 9004504664
• 9789004508453 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021061480

OCLC

1295837705

Author

Mencfel, Michał, author.

Title

Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874) : Aristocrat, diplomat, and patron of the arts / by Michał Mencfel ; translated by Thomas Anessi, in collaboration with Małgorzata Olsza.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-532) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY POZNAN. IN-DEPTH BIOGRAPHY. COLOR ILLUSTRATED. TRANSLATED.

Added Author

Anessi, Thomas, translator.

Translation of: Mencfel, Michał. Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874).

Other Form:

Online version: Mencfel, Michał. Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874) Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 9789004508453 (DLC) 2021061481

Research Call Number

JFE 23-2067