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Tales of Ancient Mythology in Italian Renaissance Majolica in Czech Collections
Gordejeva, Anna ; Jarošová, Markéta (advisor) ; Otavský, Karel (referee)
The aim of this bachelor work is evaluation of the Italian Renaissance ceramics with motifs of ancient mythology in the context of Czech collections. Work closer related literature in the Czech and foreign art history. The main attention will be focused on the analysis and interpretation of individual exhibits both formal and iconographic page. In connection with the selected collection items will also be reminded of the main production centers of the Italian Renaissance ceramics. Finally, the work will evaluate iconographic themes and their typological comparison with similar parts in foreign collections. Keywords Italian majolica, 16th century, ancient/classical mythology, czech collections, italian rebirth/the Italian Renaissance, faience
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The meaning of ideas about the end of the word in the process of conquest and colonization of America
Brenišínová, Monika ; Křížová, Markéta (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to explore the possible influence of the idea of the end of the world on the process of conquest and colonization of America. The author tries to answer this question through the study of selected images of the Last Judgment. The purpose aim of this thesis is not to describe or stylistically classify given works of art, but to interpret them using the methodology based on the semiotic conception of culture as public symbolical system that allows to interpret the culture and its expressions in their social connections. As the topic of this work is related to the question of death and finality, the chosen works of art are interpreted also in connection with A. van Gennep's idea of "rites of passage", which enables to pass from one life stage to another. The main source for analysis is the photographic material, which illustrates images and reliefs of the Last Judgment in their natural environment.
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The Litomysl Gradual Illuminated by Matous Ornys of Lindperk
Moučková, Barbora ; Hlaváčková, Jana Hana (advisor) ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (referee)
keywords: Litomysl Gradual, Matous Ornys of Lindperk, 16th Century, Bohemia, literary guilds of fraternities The main aim of the thesis is a monograph of the Litomysl Gradual of 1561-63 within the context of the works of Matous Ornys of Lindperk. In addition to the critical analysis of the resources dealing with this subject, the thesis also monitors the works and the individual cultural and historical connections to the manuscript, with particular focus on the donators - literary guilds of fraternities, whose role and position within the community of a modern- period town are dealt with in further detail. The emphasis is put on the specifics conditional upon their ultraquist denominational affiliation and the corporate nature of the order. After placing the work within the cultural and historical context, the author of the thesis performs the basic codicological analysis of the manuscript structure, followed by the detailed description of the bookbinding, and an iconographic analysis of the internal decoration of the gradual, the latter focusing on both the motives embedded in the historiated initials as well as the motives of the border decoration. The tracing of the relations between the illuminations and other graduals forms the important part of the formal and comparative analysis of the...
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Oldtown's gradual (NK ČR, XVII.A.40), 1561-1567, from the manufactory of Jan Taborsky of Klokotska Hora
Součková, Ema ; Kubík, Viktor (advisor) ; Jarošová, Markéta (referee)
Oldtown's gradual The aim of this work is a monographic elaboration of the Oldtown's gradual (XVII.A.40), from 1561 to 1567, in the context of the work of Jan Taborsky of Klokotska Hora, with the emphasis on connotation of Žlutice gradual. The work elaborates and critically appraises the literature about the genesis and decor, deeply analyses its illuminations (through formal and iconographic analysis) and gives basic orientation in questions of analogies of its decor. Another goal of this work is a summarization of the decor of Oldtown's gradual and elaborated analysis of its illuminations. Oldtown's gradual is one of the best Renaissance manuscripts. The penman was Jan Taborsky of Klokotska Hora; chapter 2.1. deals with his life and production. Matous Ornys of Lindperk was the limner; chapter 2.2. deals with his work. Indisputably, he belongs to the best limners of the 16th century. The decor of the gradual is described in the chapter 4.2. Illuminations of gradual have conventional scheme of choral manuscripts. A lot of analogies are to be found in the medieval and also Renaissance manuscripts. There are elements of medieval literary paintwork, but also fully Renaissance elements: perfect linear perspective and high-quality scenery. Oldtown's gradual is one of the most beautiful and one of the...
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The painter Jacob Seisenegger and his portrait paintings in Bohemia and Moravia. With regard to the development of life size portrait painting in the north of the Alps
Adamová, Klára ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the work of the Austrian portrait painter Jacob Seisenegger (1505-1567) in Bohemia and Moravia during the years 1529-1562. Jacob Seisenegger in his work focused mainly on life size portrait painting. The introductory part is devoted to the artist's biography and selected examples of portraits created during Seisenegger's work as a court painter at the court of Emperor Ferdinand I of Habsburg. In addition this part is extended with an outline of the development of Renaissance self-portraits in Bohemia. The main part of the thesis is devoted to the individual portraits by Seisenegger of members of the Czech and Moravian aristocracy. Each sub-chapters first introduces the portrayed person and then they focuses on the description, iconography and stylish classification of the artist's works or other contemporaries works. The final part discusses the influence of Jacob Seisenegger on portrait painting in our country.
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-Anonymous carver and his workshop co-operating with Master of Slavětín altar in northwest Bohemia.
Žebrová, Martina ; Royt, Jan (advisor) ; Chlíbec, Jan (referee)
This bachelor work aims to outline the work of a carver and his workshop co-workers who came in the Northwest Bohemia and their cooperation on altars with a painter called the Master of slavětín altar. Furthermore this bachelor work tries to find out and describe the influences under which works originated. The workshop with the cooperation with the painter, which operated mainly in northwest Bohemia about 30 of the 16th century, created many valuable works of art of the late Gothic period and the early Renaissance era in Bohemia. Given the vast array of sculptures attributed to the anonymous carver and his workshop, is the work also trying to revised the number of works attributed to him.
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Jan Sembera Cernohorsky of Boskovice and the heritage of the House of Liechtenstein
Dufková, Kateřina ; Šedivá Koldinská, Marie (advisor) ; Kostlán, Antonín (referee)
This diploma thesis is dedicated to Jan Sembera Cernohorsky of Boskovice, Moravian aristocrat from the second half of 16th century, the last descendant of an important family of Boskovice. It describes his life story from the childhood to the death which it puts into the broader context and creates a comprehensive view of the higher nobles of his time. Particular attention is paid to the family of Boskovice, especially its last generation, which represent aside from Jan Sembera primarily his brother Albrecht Cernohorsky of Boskovice and Semera's friend and relative Jan of Boskovice and Trebova. The specific role in Jan Sembera's biography necessary plays the transfer of the legacy of the house of Boskovice to the Liechtenstein's family. This was accomplished through two marriages between Karl and Maxmilian of Liechtenstein and Sembera's daughters Anna Marie and Katerina. The importance of those alliances is reflected in the perspective of both financial as well as cultural capital inherited by the House of Liechtenstein and the way how did they use and treat it.
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Spanish court portraits of the 16. century and spanish portraits from the Lobkowicz collection
Kalinová, Daniela ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee)
The thesis concerns Spanish court portrait of the 16th and the begining of the 17th century. After a brief introduction to the problematics of portrait in general it concentrates on the court portrait of the whole standing figure, maps the dawn of portrait painting in Spain and the origin of the indigenous portrait school. It analyses more closely two generations of Spanish portrait painters, especially Alonso Sánchez Coello and his competitors at the court of Philip II. and Juan Pantoja de la Cruz and his disciples working in Madrid during the reign of Philip III. Finally it summarizes the most interesting portraits from the Lobkowicz Collection which were made by these portraitists of the court of Madrid.
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The Communication of the Town Kouřim with the Court of Appeals, 1548-1568
Čadová, Hana ; Hojda, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Hausenblasová, Jaroslava (referee)
The subject of the submitted dissertation is to pursue the mutual communication between the royal town of Kouřim and the cour of appeal established as a new instance for appeal for the time of the first twenty years of its existence that is 1548 - 1568. Documents of their bilateral communication are divided into two parts first are the own decisions of the court of appeal placed on record as copies in the books of the court of appeal - the socalled presidential registration or the socalled secretary s registration and the socalled legal manual (in the deposit of the Found of the Court of appeal in the National Archive) second they are in the collection of original judgements filed in the Archive of the National Museum - Topografical collection F. Decision acqired from these sources are analysed and their contents are examined on proportional presence of civil criminal and lawsuits as well as the number of appeals in the particular years and the way the court of appeal made its decision. The second part is represented by own letters supported mainly by the fragment of Kouřim registration in 1565 - 1569. They were also examined from the diplomatic standpoint of view on their contents and the person of iniciátor The continuation is dealing with matters in connection with decisions made by couts of...
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