Gleam of Gold, Blaze of Colours. The Art of Reverse Glass Painting in the Collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gleam of Gold, Blaze of Colours. The Art of Reverse Glass Painting in the Collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague

Original language description

The publication "Gleam of Gold, Blaze of Colours", accompanying an exhibition of the same name, became the first result of the longterm research project focused on the collection of exclusive reverse glass paintings; it represents almost 140 works from Antiquity to the 19th century. Since 80s there has been concentrated effort to analyse the collection. In 1995 there were the first official ties of cooperation with The Murnau Castle Museum in Bavaria, later also with Vitromusée Romont in Switzerland and with specialists, e.g. F. Ryser, W. Steiner, R. Trepesch, J. Geyssant. Reverse paintings necessitate close collaboration with technologists and restorers; since 2003 a deep survey to ascertain the condition of reverse paintings, silhouttes and double walled glass was conducted. The rich and diverse collection of the museum makes it possible to identify related or even matching personal styles in various objects, mainly in the works which could be attributed to the workshop of Daniel and Ignaz Preissler, based in the Kolowrat estate in East Bohemia from the 1670s to the 1730s. The most important thing was to find and identify engravings and prints from which the designs were taken. Especially in the case of baroque works, it is often a combination of various graphics. Thus far, in the research, became the most interesting question of the so-called Bohemian-Franconian School. That is the major grouping of as-yet anonymous works from the 18th century dominated by Old Testament scenes set within the backdrop of ancient ruins and characterised by abundance use of gold. Considering the quantity of such specimens preserved in Czech collections, albeit diverse in style, yet matching in their technique with the production of Bohemian double-walled glass, we assume that these are most likely Bohemian works, possibly even of Prague provenance from the last third of the 18th century. This hypothesis is also supported by the finding of the source - Johann Arnold´engravings after Franz Karl Palko. The research continues to focus on finding the concrete provenances, especially in the Bohemian-Franconian School and the centers in South-West Bohemia.

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

ISBN

978-80-7101-189-7

Number of pages

272

Publisher name

Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze

Place of publication

Praha

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