Jan Juliusz Ostrowski (born 12 June 1947) is an art historian, from 1989 to 2020 director of the Wawel Royal Castle National Art Collection, from 2018 president of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Biography In 1970 he graduated from the Jagiellonian University. He worked at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University. He became a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the , the Committee on Art Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the deputy chairman of the (SKOZK). In the years 1998–2002, on behalf of the Freedom Union, he held the mandate of a councilor of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship Sejmik of the first term.
He supervised eight doctoral dissertations; Piotr Krasny and Andrzej Betlej were among his doctoral students. A book dedicated to him was released in 2017.
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Accolades Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1994) Kraków Book of the Month Award for the book Mistrzowie malarstwa polskiego (December 1996) Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2000) (2008) Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2010) City of Kraków Award (2010) Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honour (2011) Bene Merito honorary distinction (2012) Officer of the Order of Saint Charles
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