„Kordian” i panoramy
Słowacki’s Drama “Kordian” and Panoramas

Summary/Abstract: In August 1831 Juliusz Słowacki visited London, the city in which various forms of entertainment that ensured virtual journeys took place. A popular destination of such journeys were the Alps. Słowacki might have seen the Alps in panoramas, dioramas, and cosmoramas. The poet met the fashion for panoramas also in Paris where admiration for new technology, namely linking images with real objects, was raised. The technique was used by, inter alia, Louis Daguerre in his diorama “Vue du Mont-Blanc, prise de la vallée de Chamouny” (“A View of Mont Blanc from Chamonix Valley”). In Kordian, the main protagonist’s monologue on Mont Blanc and the scene from the initial part of the drama, “Przygotowanie” (“Preparation”), show clear signs of Słowacki’s encounters with panoramic painting.

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