Italy in Sarmatia. Paths of the Renaissance in Eastern Europe

This book is about what brings the artistic culture of Bohemia and Hungary, Austria, Poland and Russia in the XV-XVI centuries. According to the author, this is the presence in their visual culture of the Italian accent. Italian experts, first of all, architects and sculptors, rush to the ZAALPIIS countries and often settle there, the study discusses various areas of their activities - from the construction of royal castles and the design of cities to the organization of festive processions. The book is a redesigned and supplemented translation of the German edition (Italien in Sarmatien. Stutttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2008) Marina Dmitrieva is a historian of art, since 1996 has been working at the Research Center for History and Culture of Eastern Central Europe (Leipzig) and teaches at the University of Leipzig