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Painter František Jakub Prokyš and his sacral works
Velflová, Lenka ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Oulíková, Petra (referee)
Painter František Jakub Prokyš and his sacral works There were two historians of art who were profoundly interested in painter František Jakub Prokyš. The first one František Matouš prepared an intensive study before World War II, but he did not finish it. Pavel Zadražil was the second and he wrote his diploma about this subject in 1985. Prokyš is mentioned in some other books as well. We hardly know anything about František Jakub Prokyš's childhood and his teenage. He was probably born in the town of Slaný in 1713. The first proper information about him is from Borovany, where he worked in 1746 for the Augustinian's monastery. Prokyš painted frescos in the church and in the new built chapel and made some pendent pictures. In the year 1748 Prokyš worked for the Augustinian's monastery in Třeboň and in a short time he moved from the north Bohemia to Třeboň. Living in Třeboň was a good time for him, because he got married and two of his children were born there. He began to work for local princely family of Schwarzenberg in Český Krumlov. And in 1760 he was solvent enough to buy a house on the České Budějovice's square. His best work was done during the 60's and 70's. In České Budějovice he decorated walls and vault in the Holy Trinity's church. For the Dominicans he painted the picture of Our Lady of the...
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Italian renaissance drawings of 1500-1520 in the national collections of the bohemian crown lands
Benčová, Monika ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Kropáček, Jiří (referee)
The work focuses on "Italian Renaissance Drawings from Years 1500-1520 in the Public Czech Collections". It describes the situation at the beginning of 16th century, including first two decades of the time. During those years the position of particular towns changed especially due to political situation. For a short time, Rome came on the top, too. It was under the pope Julius II., who tried to form and collect a unique set of artistic works. This ambition requested the presence of many significant artists. There are 16 drawings by 13 artists from that period in the Czech collection. These artists belonged to the different artistic schools: Filippino Lippi and Andrea del Sarto are from the Florentine school; Boccaccio Boccaccino, Francesco Casella and Tommaso Aleni from Cremona; Giovanni Bellini and Sebastian del Piombo from Venice; Amico Aspertini, Marcantio Raimondi and an anonymous artist came from the North Italy (Bologna); the last artists came from Rome: Raffael and Baldassare Peruzzi. In the end, two drawings of female figure (never published before) by an unknown author (called drawer of the first half of 16th century) are described. The main concern is set to a study of drawings (for a complete review it is supplied with a short biography of each artist), which are sorted according artistic...
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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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Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo in the Collection of the National Gallery in Prague
Táborská, Eva ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Přibyl, Petr (referee)
Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo in the collection of National Gallery in Prague The main theme of my thesis is the study of one of the finest renaissance paintings in the collection of The National Gallery in Prague - Bronzino's Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo. Beside the main theme, the thesis also focuses on painting's context such as family relationship in which Eleonora had lived including a brief outline of general conditions in Florence around 1550. The thesis is set together on basis of secondary literature, which is noticed in the quotes. There is not a lot of information remained about Eleonora's own life, however we are able to develop a concrete idea about her personal life - a young lady from a distinguished Spanish family married the Duke of the one of the most significant Italian city states - Florence. She became a wife of Cosimo di Medici, she was a fine woman and a carefull mother, but also a lovely lady as shown in the portrait. When Agnolo Bronzino came up to produce Eleonora's portrait, he had been already treated as an accounted and acclaimed artist. Also Giorgio Vasari depicted his talent with honourable mention in his works. Particularly in Florence, he started his career of successful Medici portrait painter. As a turning point of his works, it is considered his painting of...
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Renaissance books decoration after the book-printing rise in Bohemia
Vlášková, Barbora ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (referee)
Renaissance books decoration after the book-printing rise in Bohemia Barbora Vlášková In my Bachelor Thesis, I am dealing with the book culture during the Renaissance Era in Bohemia. My review is focused to both the transformation and qualitative development of the book illustration approaches after the book-printing advent, and all this I am evidencing by the most important publications issued since the end of the 15th to the end of the 16th centuries. In my Bachelor Thesis, I firstly focus on the personality of Johannes Gensfleisch, the inventor of book-printing called Gutenberg, and the printing technique. In addition, I deal with the graphic techniques that are used in early press processes. However, my greatest attention here is devoted to the Prague press before 1500, where the greatest printing personalities are mentioned, who deserved the most in view of the development of the book culture. I am describing individual printing houses and their most interesting publications produced with a rich graphical decoration. Individual chapters are devoted in this section to prints of Jonathan of Vysoké Mýto, Severín-Kampa's printing house or to printer Beneda. Then I examine printing houses that developed their activity after the year 1500 and prints reaching higher qualitative values due to their woodprint...
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Foundations of Marie Margaret Countess of Waldstein
Svobodová, Jana ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Pučalík, Marek (referee)
RESUMÉ MARIE MARKETA OF WALDSTEIN'S FOUNDATIONS This bachelor's work represents Marie Marketa, Countess of Waldstein, as the founder of sacral objects in her estates, and presents an overview of buildings with an explanation of their origin in the given locality. Bachelor's thesis is part of research on Waldstejn's patronage in northern Bohemia prepared for the exhibition of this important aristocratic family in the Museum of the Bohemian Paradise in Turnov. During my research, I did mapping of individual sites and I described them. From my point of view the work in the field was important, this means acquisition of photographs of individual churches and gathering additional information on the creation of buildings. Most reference period was the years 1724-1729, when the Countess of Waldstein was truly generous in promoting the arts, when the favorable financial situation help her. Thanks to this situation newly built or restored religious buildings on Waldstein's estates were built. Such as decanal church of St. James in Mnichovo Hradiště, St. Nicholas in Turnov, and St. Vojtěch in Kruh near Doksy, St. Wenceslas in Boseň and the chapel of St. John of Nepomuk at Waldstein, St. Stapin in Klokočka. The aim set for this work I managed to meet, even though I remained in this work due to my research even more...
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Allori's Portrait of Maria de Medici in Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Kunešová, Veronika ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (referee)
Allori's portrait of Maria de'Medici in Kunsthistorisches Muzeum in Vienna SUMMARY The main theme of my thesis is a portrait of Maria de'Medici(1540-1557),which is now part of collections in art gallery Kunsthistorisches Muzeum in Vinna.Maria de'Medici is portray here in approximately fifteen years old,at that time she had already been betrothed to Alfonso II. d'Este and she had become Duchess of Ferarra.She died when she was seventeen years old,cause of death was probably malaria.Her premature death is probably the reason why we have so little mentions about her life.In my thesis I did not just occupy by the portrait,but I tried to evaluace it in relation to other portraits of women from the circle of florentine Medici court which Alessandro Allori created and in connection with Maria's life and era in which she lived.I devoted special chapter to Allori's creation of miniature portraits,which were very popular in florentine court of Cosimo I. de'Medici. Alessandro Allori was one of the most important artists in Florence in second half of sixteen century.Since his youth,the Medici in Florence set him important contracts and in 1572 after his master's death he became the main court artist of Medici florentine court.Therefore I include the important milestones in life and work of Alessandro Allori in my...
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Early Baroque Altars in Prague
Kolář, Jan ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Horyna, Mojmír (referee)
ENGLISH ANNOTATION This paper discusses Prague altars that were crafted in the early-baroque years between 1620 and 1680. It contains a brief outline of the historical period during which baroque style was making its entry in the Czech lands. For the restoration of the catholic religion by means of art were used as well. The baroque church combined all kinds of arts in its complexity. The main attention of its builders was paid to altar constructions, most often wooden ones. This paper then analyzes the history and typology of the altar and its components - the altar table, the retabulum (altar leg) and the tabernacle (sanctuary). The overall development of early-baroque altars dated from late-renaissaince mannerism to the beginning of top-baroque is discussed, together with the metamorphosis of the altars' architectural concepts, the artistic perfection of the altars and of their decorative elements. Both preserved and some non-preserved altar constructions located in Prague (in the area of Hradčany, Lesser Town, Old Town and New Town) are listed and described in this paper. Key words: Altars, Early-baroque, Prague, Early-baroque altars in Prague, 17th Century
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Return to the Pure Baroque. The State of the Church of St. Margaret in Jaromerice nad Rokytnou after General Overhall Reconstruction
Höferová, Jana ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Pučalík, Marek (referee)
Return to Pure Baroque. The State of the Church of St. Margaret in Jaromerice nad Rokytnou after General Overhall Reconstruction This thesis is focused on the course of the overall reconstruction of the Baroque church of St. Margaret in Jaromerice nad Rokytnou, underlining dicretion of its execution. What matters, are not just the reconstruction works but renovation of the whole image as the interior's one as the exteriors one, which was by its end evaluated by The National Heritage Instituon as pure Baroque. Firstly, for better understanding of the situation and introducing a reader into a relationship with fine Baroque architecture and decoration, a brief history of the town, the church as well as Questenberk's ancestry, who put an effort in the Baroque reconstruction of the church and the Jaromerice's castle as well, is described. In conclusion, one can get known how the church looks like nowadays and who a dean, Fr. Václav Kuchler, who initiated the general reconstruction and thus preserved the church from destruction, was. Consequently, there are some false facts, again and again repeated in previous sources, shown on light. BAROQUE CHURCH ARCHITECT ARTWORK RESTAURATION
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Stuccoed ornamentation by Santino Cereghetti at Svatá Hora
Hovorková, Eva ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (referee)
The bachelor work deals with the work of Santino Cereghetti (about 1640 - 1791), stucco worker of Italian origin, in Svatá Hora. The first part deals with the technique concerning the stuccoed decoration. The second part concerns the Italian artists who came from the area surrounded by the lakes at the today's border between Italy and Switzerland and who worked as architects and stucco workers in the whole Europe. The third part of the bachelor work follows the changes in the stuccoed decoration and its form in Bohemia in the baroque time. The core of the bachelor work is in the fourth part in which the stuccoed work by Santino Cereghetti in Svatá Hora is described. The determination of the stuccoed decoration made by Cereghetti results from the contracts which prove his work and from the similarity of elements present in his form of the stuccoed decoration. Cereghetti's stuccoed decoration is embedded in the early baroque architecture. Changes in his stucco work are obvious. His first stuccoed decoration is of early baroque character. Later his stuccoes have typical high baroque features: Bernini's influence is reflected especially in the figures because Cereghetti's figures are moving, a concrete moment is displayed from which the direction of the movement and its intention are to be...
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