Album

Information

Owing to restrictions imposed by the copyright regulations not all digitised photographs from our holdings can be made available to the public on-line. Guests interested in using our holdings for scholarly purposes may request an account by contacting us by phone or e-mail.



Information for users

Only the structural core of the service, the so-called menu, is available in English, i.e. information texts, search fields, field names in the records, and command buttons. The data introduced to the database are in Polish only, including Polish versions of proper names for people and places (whenever available). In order to reduce the risk of mistakes, it is advisable to use the word lists linked to the advanced search option.

Search tips

The users are given two options: simple search and advanced search. Simple search enables searching the entire database by means of keywords and the combination thereof (using the operators: ‘AND’, ‘OR’, ‘NOT’). Advanced search allows to limit the search only to particular fields which make up the description of a given photograph in the database, for instance:

Title – e.g. ‘Matka Boska z Dzieciątkiem’ [Virgin with Child], ‘Kościół św. Piotra, fasada’ [St Peter’s church, façade], ‘Kielich’ [chalice] etc.

Artist – e.g. ‘Jan Matejko’ (names can be selected from a word list)

School – e.g. ‘niem.’ [German]

Date from / to (two separate fields which allow to define a particular timespan)

Location – e.g. ‘Kraków, katedra’ [Cracow, cathedral], ‘Lwów, Arsenał Królewski’ [Lvov, Royal Arsenal] (names can be selected from a word list)

Material - e.g. ‘drewno’ [wood] (terms can be selected from a word list)

Technique – e.g. ‘polichromia, złocenie’ [polychromy, gilding] (terms can be selected from a word list)

Iconography (based on the ICONCLASS system; under construction)

Type – e.g. ‘kościół’ [church], ‘retabulum’ [altarpiece], ‘portret’ [portrait] (terms can be selected from a word list) (under construction)

Exhibitions (year and place when and where the artwork was exhibited)

Shelfmark (beginning with ‘IHSUJ...’)

Category – e.g. ‘Architektura’ [architecture], ‘Rzeźba’ [sculpture], ‘Malarstwo’ [painting] (terms can be selected from a word list; browsing through particular categories is also possible through the left-hand side menu)

Medium – e.g. ‘odbitka albuminowa’ [albumen print], (terms can be selected from a word list)

Former Inventory Numbers

Photographer – e.g. ‘Kolowca Stanisław’ (names can be selected from a list)

Date of the Photo from / to (two separate fields which allow to define a particular timespan)

Provenance (terms can be selected from a word list)

Location of negative - e.g. ‘IS PAN’ [Instytut Sztuki PAN - Institute of Art Polish Academy of Sciences] (terms can be selected from a word list)

The resulting list can be sorted (in ascending or descending order) by the data covered by any of the above fields, with the exception of the Iconography field.


Download (for registered users)

Selected images are downloadable as JPG files in one of three available sizes: 800 × 600 pixels, 1024 × 768 pixels or the largest: not bigger than 3072 × 2304 pixels. Clicking the button denoting a given size opens a download in a separate window. By clicking the ‘Specify filename’ button beforehand, a name may be assigned to the downloaded file. It can be made up of no more than five keywords contained in the following fields: Artist, Location, Resolution, Shelfmark, Title, arranged in random order, e.g.:

warsztat_lwowski_Lwów,_katedra_ormiańska_Grupa_Ukrzyżowania_800x600.jpg

or:

Grupa_Ukrzyżowania_Lwów,_katedra_ormiańska.jpg

By selecting a particular field, additionally the original filename and the successive number in the downloading sequence may be appended. In case of not making any choice, the downloaded file will be given a system name.

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