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Sgraffito ornamentation of the house U Minuty in the oldtown square
Bulínová, Kristýna ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Kropáček, Jiří (referee)
Sgraffito ornamentation of the house U Minuty (By the Minute) in the Old Town Square It is sure, that at the house U Minuty we can see two kinds of sgraffitos and therefore the decoration was done in two phases indeed. The sgraffitos are sorted out in the firs two floors and into the third floor with the lunet ledge. We know that the sgraffitos of the third floor were not completed sooner than 1576. In this year the wood-cuts were printed by Jost Amman in Norimberk. It seems that the sgraffitos at the first two floors are younger. 1610 is the important year, when the house is sold for marked higher price then it had been bought in 1601. The creation of both phases of ornamentation can be probably dated between 1576-1610, however, there is also the possibility that the sgraffitos can be dated also later on. Reffering to the iconographic study, we can see in the first two levels scenes from Old Testament, New Testament, stories from ancient mythology, one scene is based on telling from collection of Gesta Romanorum and Allegoric persons of Moralities. All scenes can be read as guides to moralities or to vices. The lunet ledge of the third floor is decorated by medallions of French kings, started by Philip V. up to Henry II.. As was already said these decorations are based on wood-cuts of Jost Amman...
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