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Prague fountains in the Renaissance
Linartová, Klára ; Jarošová, Markéta (advisor) ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (referee)
Abstact The bachelor thesis deals with the Prague Renaissance fountains and wells. In the introduction the main attention is focused on the importance and nature of the water system in Prague, mainly in the Prague Castle, Lesser Town and the Old Town, where the most important monuments are preserved and which are the subject of this work. The main content of the work is formal and iconographic assessment of individual fountains, wells and other water reservoirs. The focus is on the circumstances, to the changes observed landmarks succumbed over time, and any subsequent modifications, co-location and in particular the form of artistic design and iconographic analysis. The conclusion is devoted to typological comparison with other major monuments in the Czech Land and broader European context. The work is structured as a catalog of important Renaissance fountains in Prague during the Renaissance with regard to their typology.
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Galileo Galilei and His Epoch
Bartošová, Tereza ; Veverková, Kamila (advisor) ; Lášek, Jan Blahoslav (referee)
This thesis deals with the personality and life of the Tuscan Renaissance scientist Galileo Galilei, a time in which he lived, and his relationship with the Catholic Church. The aim of the thesis is to acquaint the reader with the life of Galileo Galilei and Renaissance society, and thus capture important moments and influences that shaped Galileo's personality and life orientation. The thesis is divided into three main chapters. The first part deals with the Renaissance period and the related European Reformation. It focuses on the Renaissance in Italy, then education, religious situation and seeing the world. The second chapter is dedicated to Galileo's biography, with regard to his work and then researchers who were with Galileo joint activity. The last part refers to the religious situation of 16th to 17th century, considering the Council of Trent, the Roman Inquisition and the cosmology of how the people regarded it in antiquity and later the Catholic Church and scientists in the early modern period. This part especially illustrates the conflict Galileo and the Church. It describes the reasons of the conflict, the trial of Galileo and the consequences that flowed from it. The thesis is supplemented with events after Galileo's death. The conclusion summarizes the most important influences that...
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Female Nudes in Paintings Dutch Renaissance Masters. Interpretations of Works of Art from Czech Collections.
Nerudová, Magdalena ; Jarošová, Markéta (advisor) ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (referee)
Female Nudes in Paintings Dutch Renaissance Masters. Interpretations of Works of Art from Czech Collections. Abstract The bachelor thesis focused on a few selected works by Dutch Renaissance masters. The bachelor thesis is based on women nudes. To be more precise it stands on portrayal of woman nude in the art works of Dutch Renaissance painters. The nudes were divided into three different thematic groups. First group is focused on paintings with the sacral theme (Madonna and child, Susannah and the Elders, The death of Mary Magdalena). Second group brings out paintings with the profane theme (Half- length Figure of a Woman Naked to the Waist). The last group concentrates paintings of Ancient Rome (The Suicide of Sophonisba, The Suicide of Lucretia). The art works, that were chosen to be scrutinize, can be found in the czech collections of art. Each and every painting was characterized in detail using the iconography analysis, set in the period and compared to other art works that relate to them and are placed in worldwide galleries. This thesis aim is to accurate the significance of women nudes in the art works of the Dutch Renaissance masters.
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Facades of townhouses in Slavonice
Pražáková, Zuzana ; Macek, Petr (advisor) ; Biegel, Richard (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on the issues facades of Renaissance townhouses in Slavonice. It deals with the diversity of its architectural division and sgraffito. It observes factors, which probably influenced the formation of their unique shape. It describes in detail the fourteen selected houses and also contains photographs of houses taken by the author of the bachelor's thesis. It searches and compares Renaissance houses in the surrounding Slavonice, which have similar characteristics. It refers to unique collection of houses of Slavonice, especially given by the quality of sgraffito decoration and the simultaneous occurrence diamond vault. It highlights the exceptional cultural value and necessity of conservation, which tries to help.
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On the Iconography of the Cassone Panels from the National Gallery in Prague
Savická, Pavla ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee)
At the time when the Middle ages were almost, but not quite, gone and depictions of pagan gods in "high" art were still scarce, relatively common objects were covered with ancient stories and classical myths. On Florentine marriage chests of the Quattrocento reappeared some scenes that were neglected and forgotten for centuries. These chests, so called cassoni, played an important role in the renewal of secular painting in the Renaissance. This research looks at two cassone panels from the National Gallery in Prague, The Judgment of Paris and The Rape of Helen. It is focused on their iconography and its sources. Special attention is paid to the female figure with wings on her head that appears in The Judgment of Paris. She is identified as Venus, who is often depicted with wings in Florentine art of the 15th century. Possible literary sources are also considered.
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Once upon a time, there was a stranger on the road
Vondráčková, Kristýna ; Listíková, Renáta (advisor) ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (referee)
v anglickém jazyce: This thesis mainly analyzes the five-part novel Gargantua and Pantagruel written by the French author Francois Rabelais. Emphasis is based particularly on an inclusion of Rabelais's work in historical and literary context of the period of transformation between medieval and Renaissance society. More specifically, it deals with the author's humanist opinion and his critique of contemporary society, which is the main line of the work itself. The aim of our thesis is especially an attempt to outline the various possible meanings of the terms « road or path » and « stranger » in Rabelais's work and explain the role of these thematic concepts in the author's concept of criticism of society.
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The Creation and Development of Pilsner City Hall
Šimková, Martina ; Jarošová, Markéta (advisor) ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on an art and historical analysis of complex of buildings of Pilsen town hall. Central part of this komplex is renaissance building built on an order of town council by italian builder Giovani de Stazia in year 1555. It is set into the place of an older town hall's building so-called Big house. The same architekt built for an private purpose right part of so-called Imperial house (house number 290), which is also todayʼs part of town hall complex of buildings. Imperial house is a architectural work created by Giovanni Maria Filippi, who built it from two different houses in year 1609. Pilsen renaissance architecture is a great example of "Czech renaissance". Architecture forms, which were used, refers to contemporary demonstrations of renaissance in Czech, but first of all they reflect instigations of Italian renaissance. Pilsen town hall was reconstructed by Jan Koula in the years 1902- 1910.
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An ideal ruler - Charles IV - viewed by Dante Alighieri, Cola di Rienzo and Francesco Petrarca
Janušová, Martina ; Doležalová, Eva (advisor) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee)
The emperor Charles IV descended from the house of Luxembourg. Dante Alighieri regarded his grandfather, Henry VII, as an ideal ruler who should reign not only over the Empire but also over the Church. Charles IV himself is known to have been a very educated man, who maintained many contacts throughout Europe. Among Charles's admirers there were also two Italian humanists, Francesco Petrarca and Cola di Rienzo, whose lives headed in a different direction, but who both saw embodiment of Dante's idea of perfect ruler in Charles IV. In this study I would like to focus on the influence that Dante's concept of ideal ruler could have on Charles' way of government and on the relations between Charles IV and the mentioned two humanists, of whom the former was Charles's friend while the other only met Charles at the Prague court as a fugitive in disguise.
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Presumptions of the Formation of the modern Men's Suit (General and unique in the typology and in the formation of men's court, military and ecclesiastical clothes in the light written, iconographical and material sources in Czech countries of early new ages at the court of the Austrian Habsburgs in the frame of the European culture of clothing)
Kutílková, Dagmar ; Koldinská, Marie (advisor) ; Petráň, Josef (referee) ; Nachtmannová, Alena (referee)
v anglickém jazyce The dissertation thesis with title "Presumptions of the formation of the modern men's suit" elaborates the general and unique features in the typology of men's court, military and ecclesiastical clothes. Research, which is based on written, iconographical and material sources, is aimed at environment at the court of the Austrian Habsburgs in early new ages from the end of the 15th century till beginning of the 90s of the 18th century having respect to history of clothing in the in Czech countries in the context with European clothing culture. The conception of the thesis goes out from the approach to men's suit in the history of clothing as to the cultural discipline. The main theoretic-metodological basis is investigsation of the general and the unique features in the concrete types of the men's clothing, which are characterized most of all of the contemporary construction (cut), material (cloth) and colours of the men's clothing and which has got the style-forming importance by means of these general features. The results of the research work amplifies not only the knowledge in the area of the clothing history, but also brings the possibility of practical application of this knowledge to increase of the cultural values of written, iconographical and material memories with time,...
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Renaissance Painted Epitaphs in Bohemia (1560-1610)
Zborníková, Tereza ; Royt, Jan (advisor) ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (referee)
This masters degree work named Painted renaissance epitaphs in Bohemia (1560- 1620) elaborates and develops the preceding bachelors work. The opening chapters present reflections and view of the perception of the death in Bohemia before the battle of Bílá hora. Yet these general aspects are focusing on the person or persons directly connected with the named painted epitaphs. Attention is paid for instance to the czech example of the Ars Moriendi, the Book about death, written by Mikuláš Krupěhorský for Petr Kokořovec from Kokořov. In the chapter dedicated to the testaments, the work handles the original last wills of Jarosav Smiřický from Smiřice and Václav Hlava from Kyršfeld, whose epitaphs form part of the catalogue. The painted renaissance epitaphs are firstly generally characterized with use of the presentation of the early works of this kind (epitaphs of the Master I.W. and the wall painting in the convent of the Fourteen Holy Helpers), then the attention is paid to the questionable issues related to the confessional (non)distinctiveness of the painted renaissance epitaphs. The question of definition and specifics of the catholic and non-catholic epitaph monuments is being solved here on the base of the rightful characteristics. Main chapter which crowns the work is formed by the catalogue of...
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