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St. Prokop's Church at Záboří nad Labem
Vaníček, Michal ; Macek, Petr (advisor) ; Žižka, Jan (referee)
6 Abstract The Church of St. Prokop at Záboří nad Labem is one of the most important and also the most remarkable mediaeval religious monuments in the Czech Republic. What is exceptional above all is the type of church, i.e. a Romanesque chapel, another example of which cannot be found in its form in our country. Equally important is the extremely high- quality sculptural decoration of the church portal, with a level of execution achieved by European standards, and which is also set in an originally open Romanesque hall, also unmatched in our country. Since the first professional research undertaken by Jan Erazim Wocel more than one hundred seventy years ago, numerous studies and articles have been written, that each successive generation of historians and art historians has enriched by a variety of hypotheses and propositions about the origin of the church and its artistic programme. A number of inaccuracies and assumptions that succeeded refute the systematic processing of written historical sources and building-historical sources, which were managed to be obtained during the repair of the church in the first decade of this century. Nonetheless there still remain a number of open questions which we are not able to answer. The Romanesque church at Záboří nad Labem was built probably around the year 1142,...
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