Wood-carvings by Jiří František Pacák in the Holdings of the National Gallery in Prague

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Wood-carvings by Jiří František Pacák in the Holdings of the National Gallery in Prague

Original language description

There is the classical threedimensional sketch that initially helped the artist to determine the preliminary composition and spatial arrangement of the final sculpture, followed by a more carefully executed model carving that provided visual informationto the patron of the sculpture and that subsequently served as firm guidance in the work carried out by the workshop?s assistants. With the changing aesthetic criteria and newly formulated requirements of the younger generation of ecclesiastical and aristocratic patrons of sculpture in the emerging Rococo period, Pacák?s mature output evinced a growing number of strictly cabinetsize pieces. Like in the cases of the formally refined creations by leading master sculptors of the early Rococo period in Prague, the artist?s late Calvary group also shows exceptional craftsmanship and technical prowess. In effect, these are exclusive artefacts, in which the Litomyšl master was able to reduce both volume and form over a minimal space, without t

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bulletin of the National Gallery in Prague

ISSN

0862-8912

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Volume of the periodical

2014

Issue of the periodical within the volume

XXIV

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

21-34

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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