Karolina Mroziewicz  is the principal investigator in the project. She is an assistant professor in the Institute of Art History of the University of Warsaw (UW). Before joining the faculty, she received her PhD in cultural studies from the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, UW and completed a post-doctoral project on the printed series of rulers’ likenesses in the early modern East-Central Europe, conducted at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Apart from colour printing and practices of colouring the images, her field of study spans book illustrations, political iconography, reception of antiquity in the early modern era as well as the identity-building role of images and their mnemonic functions. Aside from coordinating the project, she is writing a monographic study on colour printing and the practices of print colouring in the Polish Kingdom and Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the late fifteenth to the end of the sixteenth century.

 Małgorzata Łazicka  is the project member researching painted prints and technical aspects of print colouring as well as the relationship between Polish and German print markets. She is a curator of Old Master Prints in the Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library and a Ph.D. candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Warsaw, where she also received MA in art history and BA in English Language Teaching. Her research is focused mainly on the sixteenth-century graphic arts of German-speaking countries. The outcome of her latest project, conducted within the framework of the Polish National Programme for the Development of Humanities, was the printed catalogue of Barthel and Sebald Behams’ prints from the collection of the Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library.

 Magdalena Herman  is investigating technical and historical problems concerning colour printing in sixteenth-century Poland and Lithuania. She received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Culture and Arts, University of Warsaw in December 2021, based on the dissertation entitled The print collection of Jan Ponętowski in the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow. She was also a principal investigator in a project related to her thesis supported by the National Science Centre of Poland (2016-2021). Her work focuses on the materiality of printed images and on print collecting in the second half of the sixteenth century. Her field of study also encompasses illustrations of Cracovian prayer books published between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.