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Svitlana Potapen – Ondřej Haničák: Discontinuities and Persistence
Event by: Ústav dějin umění Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i.
Location: Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, v. v. i. | Institue of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Husova 4, Praha 1
Topics: History
About event
Srdečně zveme na první podzimní přednášku z cyklu Collegium historiae artium, kterou přednesou Svitlana Potapenko (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine / Goethe University Frankfurt) a Ondřej Haničák (Ústav dějin umění AV ČR / Silesian Museum).
Přednáška se uskuteční ve středu 14. října 2026 v 16.30 v zasedací místnosti (sál 117) Ústavu dějin umění AV ČR, Husova 4, Praha 1.
Across more than two centuries, portraits and other collected objects helped the Razumovskys, a noble family of Ukrainian Cossack origin, articulate, preserve, and repeatedly reinterpret their identity amid profound political, social, and geographical change. Selected eighteenth-century painted and engraved portraits of Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky reveal how his position between the Ukrainian Hetmanate and the Russian imperial court was negotiated in visual terms. The focus then shifts to Count Camillo Razumovsky's collecting activities in Austrian Silesia, viewed as part of a broader programme of aristocratic self-representation, the cultivation of family memory, and the family's social positioning. Finally, the collection's dispersal as a result of war, forced migration, confiscation, and institutional transfer is considered alongside recent efforts to reconstruct its historical contexts and internal connections through provenance research combining evidence from the family's private archive in Austria with surviving objects held in public collections in the Czech Republic.
Přednáška se uskuteční ve středu 14. října 2026 v 16.30 v zasedací místnosti (sál 117) Ústavu dějin umění AV ČR, Husova 4, Praha 1.
Across more than two centuries, portraits and other collected objects helped the Razumovskys, a noble family of Ukrainian Cossack origin, articulate, preserve, and repeatedly reinterpret their identity amid profound political, social, and geographical change. Selected eighteenth-century painted and engraved portraits of Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky reveal how his position between the Ukrainian Hetmanate and the Russian imperial court was negotiated in visual terms. The focus then shifts to Count Camillo Razumovsky's collecting activities in Austrian Silesia, viewed as part of a broader programme of aristocratic self-representation, the cultivation of family memory, and the family's social positioning. Finally, the collection's dispersal as a result of war, forced migration, confiscation, and institutional transfer is considered alongside recent efforts to reconstruct its historical contexts and internal connections through provenance research combining evidence from the family's private archive in Austria with surviving objects held in public collections in the Czech Republic.