Staletá Praha 33, 1/2017

Church of St. Cyril and Methodius in Prague-Karlín. From its conception to architectural realization

Adéla Klinerová

Staletá Praha 33, 1/2017, 2-30 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.1.01  

This article concerns the architectural realization of the Neo-Romanesque Church of St. Cyril and Methodius in Prague-Karlín and the circumstances of its foundation in the context of the historic and urban development of Karlín. The aim of the construction reflects the ambition of Prague first suburb on its own representation and attempts of its autonomous ecclesiastic administration. The developmental process of Karlín church can be generally traced to the preserved architectural proposals. Construction progress can be reconstructed on the basis of several important events, such as the consecration of the building site and laying the foundation stone,...

Prague mosaic workshop of Viktor Foerster. An overview of monumental contracts
Die Prager Mosaikwerkstatt von Viktor Foerster. Übersicht der monumentalen Aufträge

Vladislava Říhová, Zuzana Křenková

Staletá Praha 33, 1/2017, 31-59 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.1.02  

At the onset of the 20th century the painter Viktor Foerster founded a mosaic workshop within the monastery of St. George at the Prague castle. Although he is considered to be the first Czech mosaic maker, his work has yet not been comprehensively evaluated. The view on several tens of his mosaic realisations is being recently composed thanks to the field and archive research. The survey of the written evidence provided dates of Foerster's personal and professional life, which disprove the errors published in literature, and broaden the scope of his work.The introduction of the study enlightens the origins of the interest of the specific technic,...

Two exhibitions of Beuronese art in Germany : Prague in the context of the Beuron Art School
Prag im Kontext der Beuroner Kunstschule : Zu den Ausstellungen der beuroner Kunst in Deutschland

Helena Čižinská

Staletá Praha 33, 1/2017, 60-93 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.1.03  

Two exhibitions, displaying Beuronese art, were held in 2016 in Germany at two sites, quite remote from each other. Both opened in the same week on the 13th and 17th April. The exhibition in Limburg an der Lahn concentrated mainly on the work of the Beuronese painter P. Paul Adolf Krebs, who was creating cardboards of wall paintings, designed furniture, paraments or preciosa for the near Benedictine Abbey of St. Hildegard in Eibingen, which is almost unknown to us. This complex in the Rhein region was founded from the Prague abbey of St. Gabriel at Smíchov. The second exhibition in the cradle of Beuronese art on a slender Danube repeated the presentation...

Hospitals Na Bulovce and Na Homolce. Contribution of the 1980s to the architecture of the Prague hospital premises

Kateřina Houšková, Anna Schránilová, Matyáš Kracík

Staletá Praha 33, 1/2017, 94-119 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.1.04  

This article concerns the history and subsequently the reality of Bohemian, resp. Prague, architecture designed for medical purposes, until the end of the 1980s.2 The authors selected two large hospital premises in Prague, which in their opinion are both well preserved and remarkable. The selection thus covers the most significant realisations of hospital architecture in Prague in the 1980s, which includes three new pavilions within the Na Bulovce hospital complex (from the late 1970s to 1989) and the complex of the prominent hospital Na Homolce, in service since 1989, which soon afterwards was transformed to a classic state facility.

Vyšehrad in the period of Charles IV and Wenceslas IV. Unknown appearance of the royal castle in the early 17th century iconography

Petr Uličný

Staletá Praha 33, 1/2017, 120-143 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.1.05  

The University Library in Bologna possesses a plan dated circa 1626, by the Florentine architect and military engineer Giovanni Pieroni, concerning proposed fortification with a contemporary survey of Vyšehrad castle, drawn in particular detail in the area of the ruined former royal acropolis prior to its Baroque redevelopment to a fort, providing a valuable glimpse of the earlier constructions. Additionally the plan depicts elements not revealed from the archaeological excavations, comprehensively published in 2004-2015. Also prospects by the Dutch draftsmen, Roelandt Savery and Paulus van Vianen, who worked in Prague at the court of Rudolph II, are...

Post-medieval oven tiles with allegoric decoration from the New Town of Prague
Neuzeitliche Ofenkachel mit allegorischer Ausschmückung aus der Prager Neustadt

Veronika Staňková

Staletá Praha 33, 1/2017, 144-152 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.1.06  

This article presents an assemblage of post-medieval relief oven tiles depicting combination of human or animal allegories of four basic elements and seasons. The finds were revealed by two archaeological excavations at the area of Prague-New Town, in Vodičkova Street and Petrská street, in 1995 and 2014-2015. The attempt to find the direct picture, resp. graphic art template, has not yet been successful. The author reviews other possible sources of inspiration and evidence of copying the motives in various works of art in the 17th century.

Možný odraz architektonického řešení novoměstské kaple Božího Těla a Krve na Picím rohu Václava IV.

Petr Stančík

Staletá Praha 33, 1/2017, 153-164 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.1.07  

Aktuality

Staletá Praha 33, 1/2017, 165-172  

Jan Žižka: Hospodářské dvory bývalých panství v Čechách. Praha 2016 (recenze)

Jiří Chmelenský

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