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The Baroque as a banquet
Konečný, Lubomír
One of the basic constituents of Baroque art can be recognized in its ability to depict sensual qualities of the representable world as they can be perceived by means of the five traditional senses. In this article, this feature is considered in its wide historical context.
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Death in the baroque "books of miracles"
Holubová, Markéta
The study investigates and attempts to comprehend the phenomenon of death in both printed and handwritten books of miracles in the period from the second half of the 17th century through the first half of the 18th century as relates to collections from six Jesuit places of pilgrimage in Bohemia
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Authors of the wall paintigs in the Monastery at Plasy
Mádl, Martin
The article deals with the wall paintings in the Cistercian cloister at Plasy. It tries to specify more precisely their authors – Jakub Antonín Pink, Jan František Müller and Josef Kramolín. The attribution is based on the study of archive materials and on the formal analysis of the painting. The article offers a pendant to the iconographical interpretation of the painting prepared by Štěpán Vácha.
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Baroque Art in the Land of the Heretics
Kořán, Ivo
The article demonstrates a possible connection between the flowering of Czech baroque art at the beginning of the 18th century and the hope of social and religious freedom during the reign of Emperor Joseph I (1705 - 1711).
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