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Loyalty as a theme of artistic strategy
Petrasová, Taťána
This study is based on the assumption that cultural loyalties derives from military rituals, although the specific act of oath-taking may have been replaced by a different mechanism. An analysis of contemporary writings about e.g. J.V. Myslbek´s sculpture Loyalty or the Czech–Germans exhibition (Deutschböhmische Ausstellung) in Liberec (Reichenberg) 1906.
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Mystification or serious play. Slavín in Liběchov
Petrasová, Taťána
The text examines the mystifying behaviour of Czech Society in the 1840s. In the case of the building Slavín near Liběchov, called the Czech Walhalla, the entrepreneur Anton Veith ordered 21 sculptures from Munich sculptor Ludwig Schwanthaler. Czech patriots tried 1843 to demonstrate that the figures of Jan Žižka and Jan Hus existed as the first works for Slavín, however, 1845 explaine their absence as the concealment from the "singular reason".
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Double Italian heritage: Architect Pietro Nobile
Petrasová, Taťána
The essay analyses three Bohemian buildings – and their references to European Neo-Classicism – projected in this country by the very influential Austrian architect Pietro Nobile (1774–1854): mansion Kynžvart (1820–1839), funeral chapel in Plassy (1824), and Horse´s Gate in Prague (1826).
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Emotion of the sacred
Petrasová, Taťána
The text discusses the notion of emotion in the artistic movement of the Romanticism. The transition from the Enlightenment theory of passion to the "sacred" individual experience in the three national traditions (English, French, and German) is examine with respect to Czech painter Josef Mánes.
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