Artibus et historiae
Artibus et Historiae (German: Den Künsten und der Geschichte ) with the addition of Art Anthology is the name of a biannual journal with publications by the Institute for Art History Research ( IRSA , Instituto per le Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte ). The subjects of the magazine are the fine arts, especially painting, sculpture and architecture; other media, such as photography and film, are also addressed.
idea
The idea of founding a new art history journal came up at the end of the 1970s. After the International Congress of Art History (CIHA) in Bologna in 1979 , this was realized on the initiative of the Polish art historian Józef Grabski. Artibus et Historiae closed a gap in the market, because at the time there was no independent, scientific art-historical specialist journal covering all epochs and disciplines. The premise of Artibus et Historiae is interdisciplinary research, which is intended to shed light on the connections between all possibilities of visual representation, sociology and iconography.
publication
The first edition appeared in Venice in 1980 . The editorial office has been moved several times - first to Vienna , then to Florence and finally to Krakow , where it has been since 1996. The global magazine is celebrating its 30th anniversary with the 60th anniversary edition in 2009. The advisory committee of Artibus et Historiae consists of recognized art historians from all over the world. The articles are published in English, German, French and Italian. Those contributions that cannot be integrated into the journal due to their size are published in book form ( Bibliotheca Artibus et Historiae ).
The magazine is published in a square format as a hardcover and appears twice a year. The individual volumes have a double count, both of the year in Roman numerals and a consecutive number count .
title
Artibus , in Latin "the arts", is the address on the gable of the Polish National Gallery Zachęta in Warsaw , the hometown of Józef Grabski; et Historiae , in Latin and history , pays homage 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 the IRSA are provided with the characteristic logo, a little angel that stands on a scale that he himself holds. The motif comes from a painting by Lorenzo Lotto , a portrait of a 37-year-old man and is intended to symbolize the Platonic idea of the balance between the spiritual and the physical in a person's life.