Acknowledgments
I collected materials for my work and drafted the book in seclusion during the plague, from October 2020 to May 2021. Experiencing the lockdowns of cultural institutions, I took advantage of remote access to most of the materials. Thanks to the sabbatical leave kindly granted to me by the Rector of the Jagiellonian University, I was able to focus on exploring the subject and to adapt the direction of my research to my subsequent thoughts. This solitary scientific journey into the unknown, partly in the dark, was both a tremendous consolation and a unique privilege. In 2023–24, the original Polish version1 was entirely rewritten, updated, translated, reviewed, and revised. Contributing to this were the thoughtful remarks of the Brill editor, Professor Walter S. Mellion, and the anonymous reviewers from Brill. I would like to extend my special thanks to Professor Marek Walczak, former director of the Art History Institute at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, who kindly allocated the appropriate funds for the present edition of the text. Dr Aeddan Shaw, Jagiellonian University, has polished my English.
Writing, updating, and proofreading a book is only half the work since selecting photographic materials and settling the rights to them often proves to be no less demanding and time-consuming. It would not have been possible to collect the full photographic material without help. My special thanks go to the Lanckoronski Foundation, and personally to Piotr Pininski, the President, for subsidizing the purchase of the necessary photos and rights. I am indebted to Dr Dariusz Galewski (Academy of Music, Wrocław), Dr hab. Piotr Gryglewski (University of Łódź), Piotr Jamski, MA, (IS PAN, Warsaw), Dr hab. Romuald Kaczmarek (University of Wrocław), Dr hab. Michał Kurzej, Dr Daniel Podosek, and Dr Wojciech Walanus (Jagellonian University, Kraków), Professor Jan K. Ostrowski (PAU, Kraków), Dr hab. Józef Skrabski (Papal University, Kraków), rev. Dr Szymon Tracz (Bielsko-Biała), and Mr Zbigniew Urbański (Internet), as well as the authors who publish on Wikimedia and institutions that offer photographic materials in the public domain. Dr hab. Rafał Quirini-Popławski (Jagiellonian University, National Museum in Kraków) climbed the Caelian Hill in Rome to take a photo of an important statue for me, as did Don Domenico Giacovelli, PhD (University of Basilicata, Matera) in San Lorenzo Maggiore, Naples. The late Janusz Bielański, the parish priest of Wawel Cathedral, allowed me to take several photos in the Sigismund Chapel in 2006.
Marcin Fabiański, Sen w rzeźbie nagrobnej Bartolomea Berrecciego, Ars Vetus et Nova vol. 50 (Kraków: TAiWPN Universitas, 2022).