Staletá Praha 40, 1/2024

Forgotten Paintings of the Adoration of Christ in Prague’s Hradčany

Marie Vymazalová

Staletá Praha 40, 1/2024, 2-23 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2024.1.01  

The text interprets the main altar canvas from the Church of the Nativity of our Lord in the early Baroque complex of Prague’s Loreta and the entire pilgrimage site through the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Based on the records of the Capuchin  Annals and other archival sources, it opens up the hitherto overlooked question of the origin of the Church of the Nativity of Our Lord, which was significantly and repeatedly rebuilt in the first half of the 18th century. Despite this, the original altar canvas has been used again and again, which shows the great local respect for this work or motif. The article also points...

Old Photographs and New Findings on the Façade of the House No. 784 The Blue Shoe in Wenceslas Square Alte Fotos und neue Erkenntnisse zur Frontseite des Hauses Nr.-Konskr. 784 zum blauen Stiefel am Wenzelsplatz in Prag

Barbora Řepková

Staletá Praha 40, 1/2024, 24-44 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2024.1.02  

The article revises the dating of the façade of house No. 784/II in Wenceslas Square in Prague-New Town on the base of historical photographs. They indicate that the façade was not designed when the house was converted into a hotel between 1911 and 1912, but that it belongs to an earlier period. In the author's opinion, the archival sources and the style of the façade are most consistent with the fundamental reconstruction of the entire building in the 1780s. The author also points out that the modern, complicated and, above all, poorly documented building development of the house has meant that the façade in its original, possibly late Baroque form...

Bedřich Petřina – Interwar Prague Collector of Antique Art
Friedrich Petřina – der Prager Altkunstsammler der Zwischenkriegszeit

Ondřej Šindlář

Staletá Praha 40, 1/2024, 45-65 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2024.1.03  

The paper traces the hitherto almost unknown private art collection of JUDr. Bedřich Petřina (* 1879 – † 1953) in the interwar period in Czechoslovakia and during the Protectorate. Described is the collection itself, the personality of the collector and the context of the period in which the collection was built up and then lost. The collection is mapped through its fragments and references in art historical literature and its broader cultural and historical context and transformations, especially with regard to the turbulent history of the 1930s and 1940s. Petřina’s primary focus on medieval and early modern...

Encounter in the question of reality : Exhibitions of Surrealism and Socialist Realism in Prague in 1947

Tereza Havelková, Karel Dudr

Staletá Praha 40, 1/2024, 66-91 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2024.1.04  

Prague in 1947 remained a place of free expression, where various artistic trends and movements could manifest themselves. It was once again an international cultural space that, after the war caesura, re-established previous contacts in both the West and in the East, and was the home to personalities who were able to stand up to what was coming from abroad in an openly critical way. But this was soon to change. By exploring the theme of realism and reality in the light of two, perhaps seemingly contradictory, exhibitions of socialist realism and resurgent surrealist art in Prague, this study focuses on this pre-breakthrough period before February...

Opportunity makes the thief : Theft of works of art from the National Gallery in Prague before 1989 with the example of two criminal cases

Dita Schulmeisterová

Staletá Praha 40, 1/2024, 92-111 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2024.1.05  

The text deals with the theft of works of art from the National Gallery in Prague before 1989. Two examples show the two main ways in which these crimes were committed: theft by burglary and theft by staff. First is described the theft of three paintings from the Sternberg Palace in 1972, when thieves managed to steal works by Frans Hals, Tintoretto and El Greco. The second example describes the pilfering of the Graphic Collection by gallery employees in the 1950s. The issue of the security of collections in Czechoslovakia during this period and the impact of both cases on the operation of the National Gallery as an institution are examined. Several...

Palackého most v Praze a jeho sochařská výzdoba

Václav Rybařík

Staletá Praha 40, 1/2024, 112-127  

In memoriam Karla Kibice : (* 11. 2. 1930 Praha – † 3. 5. 2023 Praha)

Josef Štulc

Staletá Praha 40, 1/2024, 128-129  

Nově prohlášené nemovité kulturní památky na území hl. m. Prahy v roce 2023

Jan Baláček, Kateřina Houšková

Staletá Praha 40, 1/2024, 130-136  

Krenovka – nominace na Cenu NPÚ Patrimonium pro futuro

Andrea Holasová, Pavlína Dolejská

Staletá Praha 40, 1/2024, III