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Self-portrait of Václav Hollar (1607-1677): on the problem of the representation of one's own face in the 17th century.
Melounová, Tereza ; Murár, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mádl, Martin (referee)
(EN) The bachelor's thesis "Self-portrait of Václav Hollar (1607-1677): on the problem of the representation of one's own face in the 17th century" examines the issue of the representation of one's own face in the 17th century using the example of Václav Hollar's graphic self-portrait in the etching technique in the second stage, which Hollar himself created based on his portrait by the painter and graphic artist Jan Meyssens. This "self-portrait" was created for the graphic album "Images de divers hommes" of contemporary artists, which Jan Meyssens published in Antwerp in 1646. The purpose of the work is the interpretation of Hollar's choice of a painting template for the graphic processing of his portrait instead of creating the drawing of his face, as we would expect given the artist's classic procedure when creating his self-portrait. As an example of the classic process of representing one's own face in the 17th century, we can point in particular to the self-portraits of Rembrandt van Rijn. In other words, the work aims to answer the question, why was another artist's painting template for Václav Hollar more important than his drawing design for the representation of his face? The work will answer this question by theoretically searching for the meaning of the self-portrait in the wider...
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Ceiling Paintings and their Interpretation between Image and Material Structure
Mádl, Martin
The study is devoted to the problem of material in the structure of a work of art and its importance in art historical interpretation. Using the example of wall paintings, we consider the problem of grasping the role of material in art historical interpretation of a painting and the difficulties of professional dialogue between art historians on the one hand and restorers and technologists on the other.
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Hertel's Ripa (1758-1760). Style, ornament and structure of allegory in Augsburg engravings on the themes of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia
Hrdlička, Tereza ; Mádl, Martin (advisor) ; Nokkala Miltová, Radka (referee)
This thesis deals with a graphic album published in Augsburg by Johann Georg Hertel with illustrations by Georg Eichler Jr., whose publication is now dated between 1758 and 1760. Hertel's Ripa is the author's abbreviation of the first page of the work in German describing and partly explaining the principle of the album: 'Pars I. des berühmten italiänische[n] Ritters Caesaris Ripae, allerley Künsten und Wissenschafften dienlicher Sinnbildern und Gedancken : welchen jedesmahlen eine hierzu taugliche Historia oder Gleichnis beÿgefüget....'. In contrast to Ripa's original Iconologia from the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century, it no longer offers a continuous text, but mostly multi-layered pictorial allegories, enriched by exemplary stories which are partly revealed in short couplets. Existing research has already recognized in this form a critical form of rocaille, which functions here not so much as a decorative systém, but as a principle of narration and representation. The aim of this thesis is to use the literature to better capture the nature of the allegory in the rocaille form and to test the hypotheses that arose in the context of other works of a collective of artists, that, unlike other Augsburg artists and publishers, has not been the subject of monographs or catalogues. In...
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Jan Quirin Jahn and the dictionary of the history of art? (Beginning of the history of the art in Bohemia)
Marešová, Jana ; Prahl, Roman (advisor) ; Machalíková, Pavla (referee) ; Mádl, Martin (referee)
Práce je věnována osobnosti malíře a osvícenského erudity v jedné osobě, Janu Jakubovi Quirinu Jahnovi (1739-1802) a jeho nedokončenému projektu dějin umění založeném na životopisech umělců. Protože součástí práce je také komentovaná edice, je rozdělena na dvě části - teoretickou studii a komentovanou edici. Teoretická část sumarizuje vývoj biografií umělců od antiky až do konce 18. století v Evropě. Další kapitoly jsou pak zaměřeny na osobnost Jana Jakuba Quirina Jahna a jeho rukopis o dějinách umění. Tento rukopis se skládá ze tří částí - úvodní historické studie, výběru životopisů umělců, kteří do Jahnovy současnosti působili v Čechách a z ukázky medailonů, které Jahn shromažďoval excerpcí ze zahraniční literatury, doplňoval archivním výzkumem a nakonec je řadil do složek podle panování.
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Emperor Rudolf II's Patronage of Alchemy. Michael Maier (1569 - 1622) and Anselmus Boëthius de Boodt (1550 - 1622)
Purš, Ivo ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Mádl, Martin (referee) ; Karpenko, Vladimír (referee)
Emperor Rudolf II's Patronage of Alchemy. Michael Maier (1569-1622) and Anselmus Boëthius de Boodt (1550-1632) The work is focused on the emperor Rudolf II's (1552-1612) patronage of alchemy and two distinguished physicians interested in alchemy that lived for some time at the emperor's court. The text reflects these topics in its structure; therefore, it is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the emperor himself and his support of alchemy at the court. Furthermore, the reasons of the emperor's interest in this field of research are analyzed, as well as historical and philosophical context of the research. Examined were also collaborators and closest courtiers to the emperor that took and interest in alchemy and the possibilities of practical realization of laboratory works at Prague castle, the question of their nature and expected results. Last but not least is discussed, to what extent was the emperor personally involved in the experiments. The second chapter is about Michael Maier (1569-1622), a physician and alchemist, who came to Prague in the middle of 1608 with an intention to ask the emperor to support his research. Maier gained a doctorate in medicine in Basel and his interest in alchemy was purely medical. He wanted to offer the emperor a 'universal medicament' he had...
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Two paintings of Jacopo Vignali in the National Gallery in Prague
Zlatohlávková, Eliška ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Mádl, Martin (referee)
This thesis is dealing with the two paintings of the Florentine painter Jacopo Vignali, deposited in the National gallery in Prague. Vignali lived and worked in the first half of the 17th century in Florence, where in this time culminated the "reform of the painting" initiated in the 80th of the 16th century, mostly by Lodovico Cigoli, whom Vignali followed at the beginning of his carrier, and was developed the early Baroque style. Vignali belonged to the first generation of the painters of the early Baroque era in Florence, the last important decade of the florentine painting. He served out in the studio of Matteo Rosselli, who not only to him but to the other scholars mediated the innovations of the reform painting. The most interesting artworks Vignali made during the first 15 years of his activity, mostly in the 20th of the 17th century. During these years he created his own style, which he used for the rest of his life. As far as the style is concerned, at the very beginning he was influenced by his teacher Matteo Rosselli and partly the German painter Adam Elsheimer. The biggest authority for him was a little bit older painter Francesco Curradi. Under his influence Vignali changed the colours, the bright ones where substituted by the smooth tone of soft red and purple and his characters became more...
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Genre painting of the 17th and early 18th centuries in Bohemia
Rousová, Andrea ; Horyna, Martin (advisor) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee) ; Mádl, Martin (referee)
The theme of the thesis "Genre Painting of the 1 i h and early 18th Centuries in Bohemia" was primarily selected due to the fact that until now none of the scholars had attended to this topic. Therefore the thesis for the first time surveys the situation on the art scene and straightaway from several points of view. Pivotal is the recognition of genre paintings by artists working in Bohemia during the period of Early and mainly High Baroque. However, firstly it was necessary to circumscribe the genre painting as such because this determination was fundamental in selecting the works that I labelled as genre. To this also relates the deeper introduction into the iconography and iconology of genre painting, rendered at the same time from the standpoint of the progress of interpretation of prominent experts in the discussed topic. The attention is paid to the references of genre painting in the commentaries of historiographers, painters, art theorists and further authors from Antiquity to the end of the 1 i h century as well. From them, among other things, it is clear that this category was not in the centre of their attention and their attitude to the genre painting was practically solely critical. The opposite attitude, however, is presented through the example of 1 i h and 18th centuries collecting....
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ARIARUM DELINEATIONUM ET PLERARUM PAULI PAGANI ET ALIORUM. Drawings by Paolo Pagani and artists from his circle in the albums of the Research Library in Olomouc
Lorencová, Veronika ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Kazlepka, Zdeněk (referee) ; Mádl, Martin (referee)
The subject of the dissertation is a set of drawings by Paolo Pagani (1655-1716) kept in the Research Library in Olomouc. The drawings of this Lombard artist have been preserved there, among other drawings mainly of Italian and Central European provenance. These drawings occupy a privileged position in the whole context of his work. Pagani, came from an artistic family originally from the Lombard town of Castello Valsolda. Already in the 1660s, he moved to Venice, where he probably entered the workshop of the local painter Giuseppe Diamantini (1621-1705). He is recorded as an active artist in Venice until June 1690. In that year he was apparently invited by Emperor Leopold I to Vienna, where he went with his young student Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini. Pagani stayed beyond the Alps for a total of six years. In relation to the Olomouc set of drawings, Paolo Pagani's stay in Moravia and his work in the service of the Bishop of Olomouc, Charles II of Lichtenstein-Castelcorn, is particularly important. The thesis updates the existing research related to the work of Paolo Pagani, defines the function of individual drawings, and opens the question of their dating and authorship. The drawings from Olomouc, which have not been associated with any realisation so far, are confronted with other drawings from...
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Johann Hiebel, the painter of frescoes
Fronek, Jiří ; Horyna, Martin (advisor) ; Preiss, Marek (referee) ; Mádl, Martin (referee)
The painter Johann Hiebel (1679/1681 - 1755), who came from Schwaben (South Germany), was one of the many foreign artists who became residents in Bohemia and significantly influenced the Bohemian baroque art. He arrived in Prague at the end of the year 1707 and his arrival was very seasonable. He has acquired a reputation as a painter of frescoes educated by the famous painter Andrea Pozzo. In a short period of time he started working on projects organized by the most important investors in Bohemia, especially by the Societas Jesu of the Bohemian province, where he realized his most significant frescoes in their churches, chaples and libraries, employing his best abilities. Johann Hiebel established the long-term, close relations with the Jesuits and gained fame by realizing his first important and successful contract in the St.Climent's church in Prague (1714-1715). Consequently he made for them other works in fresco that are counted as his masterpieces - the frescoes in one of the order's churches SJ in Klatovy in 1716, then again in the Klementinum in Prague (Oratorium Congregationis Latinae Maioris 1723 and the Bibliotheca Maior 1724), and finally in Świdnica (Schweidnitz) in the Silesia - the chapel Beatissimea Virgins in Sole of the parish church JS (1726). Other focal point of Hiebel's creation...
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Genre painting of the 17th and early 18th centuries in Bohemia
Rousová, Andrea ; Horyna, Martin (advisor) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee) ; Mádl, Martin (referee)
The theme of the thesis "Genre Painting of the 1 i h and early 18th Centuries in Bohemia" was primarily selected due to the fact that until now none of the scholars had attended to this topic. Therefore the thesis for the first time surveys the situation on the art scene and straightaway from several points of view. Pivotal is the recognition of genre paintings by artists working in Bohemia during the period of Early and mainly High Baroque. However, firstly it was necessary to circumscribe the genre painting as such because this determination was fundamental in selecting the works that I labelled as genre. To this also relates the deeper introduction into the iconography and iconology of genre painting, rendered at the same time from the standpoint of the progress of interpretation of prominent experts in the discussed topic. The attention is paid to the references of genre painting in the commentaries of historiographers, painters, art theorists and further authors from Antiquity to the end of the 1 i h century as well. From them, among other things, it is clear that this category was not in the centre of their attention and their attitude to the genre painting was practically solely critical. The opposite attitude, however, is presented through the example of 1 i h and 18th centuries collecting....
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