Biuletyn Historii Sztuki is the oldest Polish academic journal dedicated to art history. Established in 1932 as a periodical of the Department of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, following WW II it was published by the State Institute of Art (later: Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences / Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk – ISPAN). Representing varied methodological approaches, the articles published in the journal refer to the essential issues from the history of Polish and foreign art, spanning the period from the Middle Ages to today. Biuletyn Historii Sztuki publishes reviews of important exhibitions and publications, and commemorates distinguished art historians. The papers are published in Polish as well as in English. The papers in Polish are accompanied by extensive summaries in English. All the papers undergo a double-blind review process. According to the List of Scored Journals of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the publication in Biuletyn Historii Sztuki earns 100 points. All the texts are available for free downloading with the Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence. In issues from 1(2019) to 4(2022) all articles were published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. Biuletyn Historii Sztuki is published quarterly, the printed version of every issue is the original one (ISSN: 0006-3967).
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