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Dr Dobrosława Horzela

A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in art history (2000), she obtained a doctoral degree on the basis of the dissertation: Late Gothic wooden sculpture in Lesser Poland around 1440–1477 (Późnogotycka rzeźba drewniana w Małopolsce ok. 1440–1477, Faculty of History of the Jagiellonian University, 2011). In 2000 worked as intern at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie in Frankfurt am Main; in the years 2002–2009 was an editor at the IRSA International Institute of Art Research; until 2018, assistant professor at the Institute of the History of Art and Culture of the John Paul II Pontifical University in Krakow, in the years 2016–2018 was the deputy director of student affairs. Since 2014, an assistant professor at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, where she manages the research project "The medieval stained glass in Poland", financed by the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities.

Member of Corpus Vitrearum International and the Association of Art Historians (Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki), recipient of the DAAD scholarship, Lanckoronski Foundation scholarship and the Samuel H. Kress Conference Travel Grant. Honoured with the Jagiellonian University award from the Stanisław Estreicher Scholarship Fund (2000) and three times recipient of the Szczęsny Dettloff Prizes awarded by the Association of Art Historians (2005, 2011, 2018).

She presented the results of her research on stained glass at numerous national and international conferences, including at the Corpus Vitrearum International congresses in York (2014) and Antwerp (2018), at The Art of Ornament conference. Meanings, Archetypes, Forms at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon (2017), 6th HAGIOTHECA Conference in Rome (2017), L'architettura medievale: il Trecento. Modelli, tecniche, materiali in Turin (2019), 26th Annual International Scientific Symposium organized by International Research Center for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages, University of Zagreb in Poreč (2019), and others.

She is the co-author of the first Polish volume of the international series Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Polen, I, 1). In 2020, she organized the exhibition "Miracle of light. Medieval stained glass in Poland” in the National Museum in Krakow, popularizing the results of studies on stained glass.

Selected publications in the field of stained-glass research:

Monographs:

  • Dobrosława Horzela, Cud światła. Średniowieczne witraże w Polsce, noty katalogowe: Edyta Bernady i in., kat. wyst. Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie, Kraków 2020.
  •  Lech Kalinowski, Helena Małkiewiczówna, Dobrosława Horzela, Die mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien in der Stadtpfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt in Krakau, mit einer kunstgeschichtlichen Einleitung von Marek Walczak, Kraków 2018 (= Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Polen, I,1).

Journal papers and chapters in monographs:

  • Dobrosława Horzela, Witraże w kościele Bożego Ciała na Kazimierzu - fundacja jagiellońska?, „Biuletyn Historii Sztuki”, 81, 2019, nr 1, p. 29-62.
  • Dobrosława Horzela, Made of gold, made of glass : remarks on the migration of ornamental forms between stained glass and goldsmiths’ art in the Late Middle Ages, “Revista de História da Arte”, 2018 vol. 8: “The art of ornament : senses, archetypes, shapes and functions”, p. 108-119.
  • Buchinger Günther, Horzela Dobrosława, Die Glasmalereiausstattung der Filialkirche St. Lorenzen ob Katsch in der Steiermark : zur Herkunft und Geschichte von 15 mittelalterlichen Glasgemälden in Krakau, Breslau und Glasgow, „Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege“, 72, 2018, nr 1/2, p. 193-211.
  • Dobrosława Horzela, Opus punctile and Stained Glass around 1400, „Umění” 62, 2017, nr 3, p. 226–243.
  • Dobrosława Horzela, Voluntary Poverty and the Relation of Potential Text and Image in the Stained-Glass Cycle of St Alexis in Königsberg in der Neumark (present-day Chojna, Western Pomerania), „Artibus et Historiae” 75 (XXXVIII), 2017, p. 33–49.
  • Dobrosława Horzela, Z badań nad zaginionymi witrażami kościoła Mariackiego w Chojnie: idea dobro-wolnego ubóstwa w cyklu św. Aleksego, in: Imagines pictae. Studia nad gotyckim malarstwem w Polsce, red. Wojciech Walanus, Marek Walczak, Kraków 2016, p. 265–276.