INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE "FRANCISZEK SMUGLEWICZ AND THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH AND EUROPE"
16–17 May 2024
The international scholarly conference is dedicated to Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745–1807), an outstanding personality of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth culture, who is yet little known and significantly underestimated. The chosen aspect of the conference will highlight the relationship of the artist’s personality and creativity with the ideas of the Enlightenment era, and reveal the significance of his oeuvre in the artistic and broader context of European cultural and political history.
Well-known Lithuanian and Polish scholars participating in the conference will present in their papers little or not yet researched aspects of F. Smuglewicz’s biography and oeuvre, taking a fresh look at the broader geopolitical, sociopolitical, and cultural contexts that shaped his activities, and will reveal unexpected parallels with the ideas of such well-known thinkers as the French philosopher Voltaire. The papers dedicated to F. Smuglewicz’s activities in Rome will provide new insights into the circumstances of the formation of his individualistic, original artistic style, and refute established evaluation clichés. The papers will cover a wide panorama of the artist’s connections and influence on the artistic culture of his time, and will also offer an in-depth analysis of the cover illustration of the so-called ‘Baths of Titus’ album.
The listeners will also have the opportunity to get acquainted with new attributions of Smuglewicz’s works and original content interpretations of various domestic, historical, allegorical, religious compositions; they will hear new facts about the activities of the artist’s studio in Warsaw and about the perceptions of his work in the 19th century. Some of the papers will explore the research issues of other artists from the Smuglewicz dynasty (brother Antoni, brother Filip’s grandson Feliks).
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE
FRANCISZEK SMUGLEWICZ AND THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH AND EUROPE
16–17 May 2024
Vilnius Picture Gallery, Didžioji str. 4, 01128 Vilnius, Lithuania
PROGRAMME
Sessions will be held in Lithuanian and English (simultaneous translation available)
16th May, Thursday
10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:20 Opening remarks
1st Session. Moderated by Dr Arūnas Gelūnas
10:40 Dr Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė. The Age of the ‘Gentle Revolution’ in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
11:00 Dr Eligijus Raila. Voltaire and Franciszek Smuglewicz: Parallels in the Representation of History
11:20 Dr Irena Vaišvilaitė. Smuglewicz – (Neo)classicist or Romanist? Fifty Years of Research
11:40 Discussion
12:00 Lunch
2nd Session. Moderated by Dr Irena Vaišvilaitė
13:30 Dr Jerzy Miziolek. The Most Beautiful View. Smuglewicz at the Domus Aurea
13:50 Dr Izabella Wiercińska. Doctus Artifex Franciszek Smuglewicz and His Atelier in Warsaw in 1784–1797. Attribution Issues
14:10 Coffee
3rd Session. Moderated by Dr Irena Vaišvilaitė
14:30 Dr Agnieszka Świętosławska. Classicists’ Prose of Life. Genre Scenes in Franciszek Smuglewicz’s Oeuvre
14:50 Dalia Tarandaitė. The Personification of Time in the Allegorical Compositions by Franciszek Smuglewicz
15:10 Dr Aušrinė Cemnolonskė. History and Allegory. Lessons from the Works of Franciszek Smuglewicz
15:30 Discussion
17th May, Friday
4th Session. Moderated by Dr Lina Balaišytė
10:00 Dr Emilian Prałat. The Smuglewicz and Gorzeński Families – Painting Series in Dobrzyca and Śmiełów
10:20 Aneta Biały. Images of the Ancient Orient in Franciszek Smuglewicz’s Painting and Drawing
10:40 Dr Barbara Maria Gawęcka. Franciszek Smuglewicz’s Painting of Saint Emeric from the Sanctuary on Święty Krzyż Mountain in Poland
11:00 Coffee
5th session. Moderated by Dr Eligijus Raila
11:20 Dr Aušra Vasiliauskienė. Traces of Franciszek Smuglewicz’s Work in the Collection of Rokiškis Manor: A Problematic Aspect
11:40 Dr Regimanta Stankevičienė, Svetlana Poligienė. Works of Franciszek Smuglewicz and Their Replicas in the Lithuanian Provincial Churches
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
6th session. Moderated by Dr Eligijus Raila
14:00 Dr Dalia Panavaitė, Tomas Ručys. Research of the Painting Technique and Materials of the painting Agrippina Carrying the Remains of her Husband Germanicus to the Homeland
14:20 Dr Helmutas Šabasevičius. Reflections on Franciszek Smuglewicz’s Personality and Creativity in the 19th Century
14:40 Dr (hp) Rūta Janonienė. Feliks Antoni Smuglewicz: the Forgotten Last Representative of the Dynasty of Artists
15:00 Discussion and Conference Wrap-up
Scientific Committee:
Dr Arūnas Gelūnas (Lithuanian National Museum of Art)
Dr Irena Vaišvilaitė (Vilnius University)
Dr Algė Andriulytė (Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilniaus dailės akademija / Vilnius Academy of Arts)
Dr Aistė Bimbirytė (Lithuanian National Museum of Art)
Dalia Tarandaitė (Lithuanian National Museum of Art)
Coordinator Gabija Kasparavičiutė-Kaminskienė (Lietuvos nacionalinis dailės muziejus / Lithuanian National Museum of Art)
Organized by:
Financed by
4 Didžioji st, Vilnius, Lithuania
+370 5 261 1685
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