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The cosmological conception of the Old Testament and its representation in the Anglo-Saxon art
Panušková, Lenka ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Hlaváčková, Jana Hana (referee) ; Studničková, Milada (referee)
The rendering thesis analyses the topic of the Creator of the world with compasses in his hands generally known in the art historian literature. The common known example of this iconography is presented in the frontispice of older of two bible moralisées in Vienna, on which the Logos-Creator is shaping the four elements within the earthcircle by the compasses. The illustration is to be interpreted according to the old French inscription in the top strip of the square frame of the scene: ICI CRIE DEX CIEL ET TERRE SOLEIL ET LVNE ET TOZ ELEMENZ. In line with this scene all the illuminations presenting God with a pair of compasses are commonly held for a depiction of Creator mundi as Architectus or deus geometra. That is why the aim of this work is to show the incorrectness of such identification above all in case of the Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. In these the analysed motif is simultaneously performed in both its meanings - the protological one as Creator mundi and also the eschatological one as the fair Judge. On the grounds by this bipolarity it is necessary to emphasize need of the distinction of the first group of authentic Anglo-Saxon view of the motif and its later appearance on the continent reduced by the essential weakening of the eschatological aspect in the favour of the protological one. The...
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Classicist gates and doors in Polička
Junek, David ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Macek, Petr (referee)
The houses doors and gates belong to discreet, but very significant monuments. There were more than 12 joineries in Polička, where 85 carved gates and doors were made during the period 40 - 80 years in 19th century and they were unique in whole Czech republic. 35 of them have preserved. Classicism appeared in Bohemia during the reign of kaiser Joseph II. (1780 - 1790) and it entered to Polička in 1841, when the buildings of schools for boys were built and faded until the eighties. The big town fire in 1845 caused outstanding classicist reconstruction. The publication treats on following topics very closely: The submitters - citizens of Polička - decorated gates were an subject of reputation. The joiners - there are the detailed lists of the masters and descriptions of their hoboes journeys. Construction of the gates and doors. The motives of decoration. The colour scheme of the gates and facades - the most common gate colours were ochre, brown and green - gate dichromatism is much modern. The door hammering including handles and locks - about locksmiths work, many cast-iron handles came from the iron-foundry in Blansko (it was one of the 5 most important iron-foundries in Austro-Hungary). The stony gantries - undecorated, made from sandstone or hard gneiss: gantries were painted by same colour as the gates....
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Aby Warburg and the symbol of the snake as the archive of human memory
Martinkovičová, Tereza ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Wittlich, Petr (referee)
Všestrannost Abyho Warburga a jeho zájem o široký kulturní kontext uměleckého díla způsobily, že jeho jméno nalezneme nejen v publikacích o dějinách umění a antropologii, ale i ve slovnících religionistiky. I Považoval umělecká díla za dokumenty sociální paměti lidstva? Díval se na ně nejen očima historika umění, ale i etnografa, religionisty a psychologa. Srovnával umělecká díla různých kultur a období. Na rozdíl od svých současníků, kteří zdůrazňovali autonomii dějin umění, považoval každé umělecké dílo za neoddělitelnou součást doby, v níž vzniklo. "lt was one oj Warburg's basic convinctions that any attempt to detach the image from Us relation to religion and poetry, to cult and drama, is like cutting oif Us lifeblood." 3 Přestože nenapsal žádné teoretické dílo, je možné z jeho studií vyvodit, jakou měl představu o významu symbolu v sociální paměti lidstva. Warburgův koncept sociální paměti lidstva, který vyústil do založení knihovny s názvem Mnémosyné (paměť), bude tématem první kapitoly. V ní poukážu na jedinečnost Warburgova přístupu v souvislosti s dobovou a současnou teorií dějin umění a lingvistikou. Zmíním se i o Warburgově disertaci a jeho důrazu na studium pramenů. V druhé kapitole se zaměřím na Warburgův zájem o antropologii a religionistiku, který se stal podnětem pro jeho rozhodnutí strávit...
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German painting 1540-1650. Art of painting in German speaking countries between renaissance and baroque
Volrábová, Alena ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (referee) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee)
Badatel, který se ujme svého odborného úkolu, nezřídka zjistí, jak bylo původní zadání ošidné. Dvojnásob to platí při práci o německém umění z období odeznívající renesance a přicházejícího uměleckého proudu směřujícího k baroku, zvaného manýrismus. Pokud chceme hovořit o "německé kresbě" té doby, nebo lépe řečeno o kresbě v německy mluvících zemích kolem roku 1600, vyvstane problém, kdo toto "německé umění" vlastně reprezentuje. Časté putování umělců a hostování mnoha Nizozemců nebo Italů ve významných uměleckých centrech tehdejší Evropy s sebou nese při vymezování daného okruhu jistou potíž. Kolem roku 1500 umělci svá působiště měnili méně a dá se říci, že se přidržovali míst svého původu. Okolo roku 1600 ale přicházeli lidé ze vzdálenějších míst Evropy. Hovoříme-li tedy o "německé kresbě" nebo lépe o "kresbě v Německu" kolem roku 1600, nemůžeme se držet národnostního hlediska v dnešním slova smyslu. Heinrich Geissler do svého obsáhlého katalogu z roku 1979 o německých kreslířích zahrnul všechny významné umělce, kteří v té době v Německu působili, takže zde nalezneme nejen široký okruh německých jmen, ale i mnohé světoběžníky od Jorise Hoefnagela, přes Antonia Maria Vianiho až po Václava Hollara.1 Pochopitelně každý z nich ve střední Evropě zanechal svou stopu a naopak si odtud odnesl své, přesto je...
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Horizons and ruins. The visible and invisible in the early modern visual culture
Hájek, Václav ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Wittlich, Petr (referee) ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (referee)
My thesis deals with one specific pictorial motif from nineteenth century (horizon contra ruin) which represents and brings questions into an early modern visual culture. The visual culture includes a set of representations (artefacts, mass images, visual signs etc.) and also methods of a visual perception and reception. This text has an objective to watch, how is a concrete historical variant of the visual culture by reflexive manner reflected and construed in visual artefacts themselves (in a relevant theoretical context).
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"Self-portrait in the circles of smoke": self-fashioning of the modern artist as a smoker in the Czech art at the turn of the 19th and 20th century
Kolářová, Petra ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (referee)
The topic of this Diploma Thesis is the representation of an artist as a smoker in the Czech Art at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. The motive is studied in the works of artists of the 1890s generation and the early avant-garde (Osma, Skupina výtvarných umělců), with the focus on the iconography of a smoker in art as well as the cultural history of smoking. Apart from paintings and graphics it uses other visual sources such as portrait photographs, caricatures published in contemporary newspapers and posters. The Thesis looks for a wider tradition in the European art and maps specific types of artist-smoker for whom cigarette, pipe or cigar is a part of his personal stylization. The first part concentrates on the early usage of the motive in the baroque painting and in the 19th century as such. The next part focuses on self-fashioning of modern artists characterized by their definition against social conventions. The attribute of smoking plays a role of a symbol of bohemian Iife, dandy astuteness, neurasthenic decadent, social or artistic revolt or emancipation of female-artists. The last part deals with the relationship of smoking to the actual art production of modern artists. Smoking is a metaphor for creativity of the symbolist poet or painter who draws the inspiration from his subjective...
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"Self-portrait in the circles of smoke": self-fashioning of the modern artist as a smoker in the Czech art at the turn of the 19th and 20th century
Kolářová, Petra ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (referee) ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor)
The topic of this Diploma Thesis is the representation of an artist as a smoker in the Czech Art at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. The motive is studied in the works of artists of the 1890s generation and the early avant-garde (Osma, Skupina výtvarných umělců), with the focus on the iconography of a smoker in art as well as the cultural history of smoking. Apart from paintings and graphics it uses other visual sources such as portrait photographs, caricatures published in contemporary newspapers and posters. The Thesis looks for a wider tradition in the European art and maps specific types of artist-smoker for whom cigarette, pipe or cigar is a part of his personal stylization. The first part concentrates on the early usage of the motive in the baroque painting and in the 19th century as such. The next part focuses on self-fashioning of modern artists characterized by their definition against social conventions. The attribute of smoking plays a role of a symbol of bohemian Iife, dandy astuteness, neurasthenic decadent, social or artistic revolt or emancipation of female-artists. The last part deals with the relationship of smoking to the actual art production of modern artists. Smoking is a metaphor for creativity of the symbolist poet or painter who draws the inspiration from his subjective...
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The interior of the forest and forest characters (Landscape paintings of Julius Edvard Mařák)
Matoušek, Alexander ; Prahl, Roman (advisor) ; Wittlich, Petr (referee) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee)
Julius Mařák patří k předním osobnostem české krajinomalby. Je připomínán, občas oceňován, k plnějšímu pochopení jeho díla máme přesto daleko. Hlubšímu porozumění brání rozkolísaná hlediska pro posuzování kvality uměleckých děl i mechanicky přebíraná vývojová klišé. V samém základě těchto 1 obtíží leží ale podivná nechuť zabývat se tím, co dílo sděluje. Namísto úsilí představit dílo na půdorysu jeho vlastních vnitřních pohnutek a směřování, se stále hojně setkáváme jen s povšechnými úvahami o cestě romantismu k realismu, či o možných vztazích k hnutí barbizonskému případně impresionistickému. Aby mohly mít takovéto úvahy váhu, musely by být daleko důkladnější a přesnější. Nezbytným předpokladem je ale vždy důvěrné poznání toho, co míníme porovnávat.Mařákovo dílo mohlo být ve své době chápáno a přijímáno snadněji než je tomu dnes. Případy, kdy kvalitní dílo umí lépe pochopit až doba pozdější, jsou spíše výjimkou než pravidlem. Jakkoli byla doba vnitřně rozporná a nepřehledná, současníci mohli daleko snáze sdílet východiska, ze kterých Mařákova práce vyrůstala. Chápali snadněji ono bezvýhradné zaujetí pro přírodní krásu i přesvědčení o její očistné moci. Sdostatek o tom svědčí těch několik zasvěcených hlasů, které tehdy o Mařákově práci referovaly. Nepochopení a intriky na které si umělec po návratu do Čech...
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Contributions to the study of the early modern period iconography of book covers
Pavlišová, Jindřiška ; Royt, Jan (referee) ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor)
ln this thesis I explore 16th century book covers. The cover protects and decorates the book and is therefore treated in the following text as an inseparable part of the book. Since book covers have rarely been studied in the past, I have included below a section (Chapter 1) on existing literature - both Czech and foreign - on the topic. Thanks to Gutenberg's invention of a new kind of printing press, and thanks to new fonts, easier typography and unprecedented development of xylographic illustration (especially in Germany), the book changed beyond recognition in the second half of the 15th century and at the beginning of the 16th century. In addition to these profound changes, or - rather - as a result of these changes, the book became cheaper and began to spread among all social classes (Chapter 2). Moreover, it is by no means surprising that all these developments were to have a seminal influence on the book cover (Chapter 3), which became simplified and Iighter in comparison with what it had been in the Middle Ages. In the 16th century, all metal components - one of whose functions, incidentally, had been to protect the boo k - gradually disappeared, the only exception being small metal clasps, used to keep the books shut tight. The need to produce quickly as many book covers as possible forced...
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Laocoon: reception of the group in Czech visual arts (1800-2000)
Havlíková, Ivana ; Bouzek, Jan (referee) ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor)
The marble statuary group of Laocoon discovered in 1506 A. O. in city of Rome i s one of the most studied, discussed and inspirational work of ancient art. Since i ts discovery, Laocoon has inspired an uncountable number of diverse receptive works of art in many different ways. Briefly summarizing, it was considered as an exemplum artis for artists of almost all periods and as an exemplum doloris in christian iconography of posttridentine period. In century Laocoon was used for the first time in the sphere of popular cul ture. The greatest influence can be seen in the art of caricature. Influence of the group persists even until our days. First examples of reception of the group in Czech art can be seen in the period of manierism in the court of emperor Rudolf II and in 18th century. In 19th century with the beginnings of Prague Art Academy Laocoon became even in our country one of the most copied works of ancient art, but it also stimulated the origin of satirical reaction on educational methods of Prague Art Academy. The first appearence of Laocoon in czech caricature is dated to the middle of 19th cen tury, since than Laocoon has been used for the needs of Czech caricature many times.
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