Problemy inwentaryzacji zabytków w dużych zespołach miejskich na przykładzie "Katalogu zabytków miasta Krakowa"

On the example of works on ’’The Catalogue of Cracow’s Historic Monuments”, describing a few hundred monuments of architecture and several thousand works of painting, sculpture and artistic craftmanship, the au thors present problems of the cataloguing of monuments in big town complexes. Assuming th a t the cataloguing is to cover structures put up before World War II Cracow has now several thousand buildings of historic interest th a t represent different periods. The idea to catalogue monuments arose in Cracow already in the 18th century (first publications appeared about 1900). More comprehensive studies were undertaken only after 1945 and were included into the works on ’’The Catalogue of Arct Monuments in Poland”, prepared by the Institute of the Polish Art attached to the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1973 a special institution for works on the cataloguing was established, namely the Team (at present th e Workshop) for th e Cataloguing of Historic Monuments of the Town of Cracow, headed by Jan Jamek and emploing 5 permanent workers and about 20 co-workers. Their task is to carry out field works according to the ir specialization, e.g. miniature codices in libraries are prepared by a rt historians engaged in this problem. The cataloguing of Cracow’s historic monuments has been done in nearly 70 per cent. The works carried out so fa r have brought a number of discoveries — out of 1,000 photographs published in one p a rt of ’’The Catalogue” almost 800 represent the works th a t have not been known before. A fu rth e r efficient p rogress of the works depends on the training of a sufficient number of specialists, i.e. a rt historians who would recognize and date various objects from different epochs according to the instructions on cataloguing. It is expected th a t works on the cataloguing of Cracow’s historic monuments should be completed in 15-years time, while editorial works will last about 20 years. The whole of ’’The Catalogue of Cracow’s Monuments” ’will consist of 12 parts (altogether 40 books) containing 3,000 pages of the te x t and 12—15 thousand photographs. It will be an important material for a rt historians, architects conservators, and what is most important, it will offer a full possibility to undertake works on thematic catalogues (e.g. of gold works, already being prepared). A vast number of treatises and articles arising as the effect of the works on cataloques prompts the establishment of a specific department for studies on the art of C ra cow biassed in favour of the works on the a rt of the microregion.