W świetle Środziemnomorza. Estetyka klasycyzmu polskiego w początkach XIX wieku

Abstract

The author analyzes the theoretical assumptions of Polish classicism at the beginning of the 19th century, based on the writings of Eusebius Słowacki, Ludwik Osiński and Jan Śniadecki. The classicist doctrine in this edition is a distant echo of the classical – Greek and Roman – Mediterranean culture, transformed and metamorphosed by the French culture of the 17th and 18th centuries. As the researcher points out, there is a lot of contradiction and inconsistency in this doctrine. What is more, some of its assumptions seem to foretell the Romantic aesthetics, hostile to the principles of symmetry, tidiness, order and common sense, professed by Polish classicists already in the first half of the nineteenth century.