Ornamenta Poloniae Mediaevalia. Medieval art in Poland: catalog of form and detail compared to Europe

Research and development project donated by National Center for Research and Development, time of completion: 01.08.2009 - 30.11.2012.

In the framework of the project the database has been created that contains source material for studying medieval art in Poland (both in national as well as regional and local scope) supplemented by analogical items from other European countries. It will be interesting basis for future researches on artistic relations between Poland and other medieval European countries. It will also help in systematizing and complementing the still scattered and incomplete knowledge of medieval art forms in Poland, as well as will help in gathering scientific materials of proved chronology, which can be very useful for dating antiques, to which dates of origin iare still questionable. Our project becomes a part of a growing number of international cross-disciplinary studies of the sources of European artistic culture.

Besides of descriptions, 27.000 pictures of ornaments and details of medieval Polish and European art were done, that were supplemented by 3.000 general views of objects (architectural / sculptural ensembles, manuscripts, works of arts and crafts, archaeological artifacts) which houses this ornaments and details.

Database is available as part of cultural heritage portal at the address - https://dk.bu.uni.wroc.pl/

At present time, inter alia, process of indexes’ integration with other databases and changing graphic files identifiers is being conducted.