PAU Art History Commission

The commission for enquiry into art history was formed in 1873 and became the major forum for the development of the discipline in Poland. Its series of publications include "Reports of the Commission for Enquiry into Art History in Poland" (nine volumes; 1877–1915; Links to digital version) and Proceedings of the PAU Art History Commission (ten volumes; 1917–1952). In 1964-1995 this commission operated as the Commission for the Theory and History of Art of the Kraków Branch of PAN and issued the annual "Folia Historiae Artium" (thirty volumes; 1964–1994) during that period.  In 1995 it became part of the PAU structure and continued to issue Folia Historiae Artium (from 1995, New Series, eighteen volumes to date).
The research topics presented at the commission’s meetings concern Polish and European art from antiquity to recent times. The presentations require both a solid grounding in methodology and an in-depth account of the topic based on a command of the subject literature. Papers are often presented by researchers from various Polish universities as well as from abroad who are not members of the commission. Its conferences and sessions are very popular among young art historians.
The most interesting papers appear in the commission’s scholarly publication: the annual "Folia Historiae Artium", which is supported by the Lanckoroński Foundation.  Digital versions of all of these volumes are available online ((https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/fha; volumes 13-18 of the New Series can be found at: http://pau.krakow.pl/index.php/pl/wydawnictwo/strony-czasopism/folia-historiae-artium).
Prof. dr hab. Wojciech Bałus is its academic editor.

Go to the webpage of „Folia Historiae Artium”.

Commission Members