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“The Italy of the Vlachs” and “Czechs’ ancestors, the Gauls” A comparative view of several constructs within Slavomania and Celtomania.
Hrbata, Zdeněk
This study focuses on parallel instruments (etymology, archeology, and ideological discourse) that played a role in the mythical conceptions of Slavs and Celts during the Romantic and Pre-romantic periods (Travelogue of Jan Kollár from 1843; creators and critics of the Celtic-Gallic origin concept).
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".
From restoration to forgery - from forgery to inspired creative work. František Horčička
Prahl, R. ; Machalíková, Pavla
The text analyses the work of the painter František Horčička and its importance in the promoting of Czech national past in the 19th century. It further investigates this trend in the painting of the early 19th century.

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