Demolished beauty and what survived – the context of late Renaissance stucco decorations in Northwest Bohemia

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15210/24:73629906

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Demolished beauty and what survived – the context of late Renaissance stucco decorations in Northwest Bohemia

Original language description

The chapter deals with a group of North Bohemian residences with late Renaissance stucco decoration, which have not yet been sufficiently reflected by art historians in Czech Republic. The decoration of the castles in Ahníkov, Prunéřov, Vičice and Klášterec nad Ohří can clearly be attributed to one craft workshop due to the use of identical forms for decorative frames and small floral and figural motifs. All the above-mentioned buildings were rebuilt and decorated around 1610. The Ahníkov and Vičice castles are also linked by the ownership of the House of Steinbach, while the castles in Klášterec nad Ohří and Prunéřov were owned by the House of Vitztum. These families will be given a new emphasis in terms of the visual culture of the late Renaissance in the region. The castles of Prunéřov and Ahníkov were demolished in the 1980s when mining in the North Bohemian brown coal basin expanded. Due to the impossibility of saving these historical monuments, the buildings were thoroughly documented at least before and during demolition (photo documentation, building-historical survey, film documentation). These materials have been assessed for the first time in relation to the stuccoes, including stucco casts and relics of preserved original stucco transfers as a of part of the fund of the collections of the Regional Museum in Chomutov. Unfortunately, the fate of the monuments discussed here was not unique, and therefore the context of other demolition and conservation projects in the second half of the 20th century in Czechoslovakia was also reflected from the point of view of both: the executive and the expert cultural heritage field research.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a 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

2024

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

Renaissance and Mannerist Stucco North of the Alps

ISBN

978-80-7560-537-5

Number of pages of the result

15

Pages from-to

169-184

Number of pages of the book

465

Publisher name

Univerzita Pardubice

Place of publication

Pardubice

UT code for WoS chapter

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