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Column orders as bearers of particular meaning: Examples from Czech Baroque architecture
Popatanasovská, Bojana ; Lunger-Štěrbová, Daniela (advisor) ; Oulíková, Petra (referee)
Column orders as bearers of characteristic meaning: Examples from Czech Baroque Architecture The aim of this bachelor thesis is to present the column orders as possible bearers of a certain meaning. For this reason, especially in the Baroque period, the five orders were modified in various ways. In my thesis I will present the most common of these modifications by means of several examples divided according to the five known column orders and one new form whose symbolic meaning I will try to better approach. In the case of the Tuscan Order, this is the example of the gate of the Imperial Mill in Bubenč, while I will demonstrate the modification of the Doric Order by the example of the symbolism of the side facade of the Church of St. Thomas in Prague's Lesser Town. I will describe the Ionic and Corinthian orders in one chapter using the example of the facade of the Troja castle in Prague and the Composite order on the example of the interior of the church of St. John of Nepomuk in Skalka. The last part of the thesis is devoted to a certain new form of the established orders, which I will try to present better on a set of buildings in the surroundings of the Cistercian abbey in Plasy, specifically on the convent of the Plasy monastery itself, the chapel of the Name of the Virgin Mary in Mladotice...
Greek and Roman traditions in Architecture of Chateau Kačina
Matys, Marián ; Bouzek, Jan (advisor) ; Bažant, Jan (referee)
The subject of this paper is the study of history of the Kačina Chateau from the point of view of its inspiration from the art and architecture of the ancient world. The introductory chapters were dedicated to the general atmosphere of the time in which the castle was designed and built, the general ideas of the Enlightenment, and also to its relations to Count Chotek. There is an unresolved problem whether its relations to Classical antiquity monuments existed directly, or if they were mediated by other sources. While working on the theme it turned out that the foundation of Kačina Chateau derived from earlier models that were developed during centuries. The work of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was of substantial importance for all Classicist architecture and especially the architects of the Renaissance knew it very well and used it frequently. For the architecture of Kačina Chateau the most important stimuli were those of Andreas Palladio who transformed earlier patterns according to his own artistic views. One of the following chapters concentrates on the personality of the owner of the estate, the Count Jan Rudolf Chotek, and then on the architects and builders of the castle. Following chapters are dedicated to the description of the castle, of its exterior, the segmentation of its interior...

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