Staletá Praha 35, 1/2019

The Industrial Palace at the Prague Exhibition Centre. Traditional symbolism and modern construction

Pavel Kalina

Staletá Praha 35, 1/2019, 2-25 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2019.1.01  

The article deals with the political and social background of the General Land Centennial Exhibition, held in 1891 in Prague (Prague Jubilee Exhibition), and interprets the central structure of the exhibition - the Industrial Palace. Technical models of this building are searched for, other than in Paris, which has been unilaterally highlighted in present publications. The design of the Industrial Palace was based on wider tradition of typology, construction practice and related theory connected with the construction of large glass halls, mainly railway and exhibition halls, developed in the third quarter of the 19th century not only in England (Crystal...

The design of the Industrial Palace : original synthesis of historicism architecture and modern steel structure
Die Formlösung des Palastes der Industrie vom Prager Ausstellungsgelände eine originelle Synthese der historisierenden Architektur und der modernen Eisenkonstruktion

Josef Holeček

Staletá Praha 35, 1/2019, 26-50 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2019.1.02  

A very detailed building-historical survey carried out in 2017 and 2018 and supplemented by restoration surveys proved the special and unique constructional design and art and symbolic features of the Prague Industrial Palace, important also in the international context. The Industrial Palace of architect Bedřich Münzberger shifted the architectural potential of the steel truss structure in spatial design and was also surprisingly radical in the articulation of tectonic elements of traditional architectural morphology. The article reflects the subordination of the structural possibilities of modern steel structures to the thinking of a traditional...

Prague footprints of Jaroslav Pantaleon Major : Work of a Pupil of the Beuron Art School as a Picture of the Time
Die Prager Spuren von Jaroslav Pantaleon Major : Das Werk eines Schülers der Beuroner Kunstschule als Abbild seiner Zeit

Josef Klazar

Staletá Praha 35, 1/2019, 51-97 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2019.1.03  

The biographical study introduces in detail the hitherto not very well-known Beuron painter, restorer and organiser of the art projects, layman brother from Prague's Emmaus Monastery, Jaroslav Pantaleon Major (1869-1936). The author captures his work in all the complex aspects of his rich life and cultural context at the time. Major is presented not only as a pupil of the Beuron Art School, painter, illustrator, restorer, designer of religious paintings and liturgical objects and church furniture, but also as a capable organizer of activities related to art projects, a proficient businessman and owner of the Atelier of Religious Art, well capable of...

Alfons Mucha: The Slav Epic. Technological and restoration survey

Tomáš Berger

Staletá Praha 35, 1/2019, 98-137 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2019.1.04  

The article presents a restoration survey of twenty paintings of the Slav Epic, carried out at the end of 2016 by photographic and laboratory methods, archival research and evaluation of current knowledge. The author based his work on preparatory drawings, historical photographs and, above all, the opportunity to examine the paintings, exhibited at the Veletržní Palace in Prague. The survey compared outcomes of the optical and photographic processes with laboratory analysis of samples. Ultraviolet rays revealed various stages of repairing Mucha's work in the 20th century, and x-rays showed a gradual transition from tempera to oil painting and the increasing...

Ecclesiastic buildings newly built and completed in Prague between 1980-2000 : Smíchov - Strašnice - Kobylisy

Hedvika Křížová

Staletá Praha 35, 1/2019, 138-158 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2019.1.05  

The article deals with the architectural conception and realization of ecclesiastic buildings in Prague between 1980 and 2000. Following the excursus to the historical circumstances of the ecclesiastic constructions in Prague during the 20th century the article focuses more closely on the period after 1950. Two buildings from the 1980s and 90s are discussed in detail - The Seventh-day Adventist Oratory in Smíchov and the Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary in Strašnice, which in the author's opinion are so pronounced that they deserve to be presented in a mutual contrast. Moreover, they are the only solitary realizations...

Věstník Klubu Za starou Prahu (1910-2015) - index of places - part 1 (katastry Velké Prahy) (159-176), bibliography - Errata (177-178)

Staletá Praha 35, 1/2019, 159-178  

Nově prohlášená národní kulturní památka na území hl. m. Prahy v roce 2018

Jan Baláček

Staletá Praha 35, 1/2019, 179-180  

Hluboké město. Moderní metropole jako Druhý Řím

Staletá Praha 35, 1/2019, III