"Renaissance" sgraffito? Specific examples from the 16th century after general reconstruction and redesigning in the 19th and 20th century in the Czech Republic

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"Renaissance" sgraffito? Specific examples from the 16th century after general reconstruction and redesigning in the 19th and 20th century in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The selected Renaissance historical monuments with sgraffito decorations (within the Czech Republic) that are intentionally unknown or extincted can serve as an example of specific approaches tao sgraffito façades in the 19th and 20th century particularly. This study will also point out the examples of decorating town halls and Sokol gyms to show the phenomenon of the Czech Neo-Renaissance in the context of the sgraffito technique. In the 19thcentury, this kind of commission was a matter of prestige. In the façades of some of these buildings, the Czech art-history discourse seeks the characteristics of the so-called “Czech Strict Renaissance”, which uses step gables, sgraffito decoration and lunette cornices as its formal material. The text will also highlight interesting sights in the German speaking regions with similar formal characteristics. There were many changes in use of public buildings during the centuries. The exterior façades are also very sensitive to weather conditions, and they didn’t survive in material authenticity. In the post-war architecture of social realism, sgraffito became the most preferred decorative technique again and found its use in urban housing complexes built as a residential background of the industrial enterprises of the first five-year plan (1949–1953) by branches of so-called Stavoprojekt. In special cases, the sgraffito of socialist realism complements the Renaissance decorations (e.g., the renewal of Velká Míčovna/Large Ball Game Hall of the Prague Castle – the allegory of Industry and Agricultureas symbols of the five-year plan). Another group of historical monuments – that is not very well known in expert literature dealing with sgraffito in the Czech Republic – consists of extincted sights, of which we know only from historical sources or are rarely photo-documented.

Czech name

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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

<a href="/en/project/DG18P02OVV005" target="_blank" >DG18P02OVV005: Rennaisance and Mannerist stucco work on Czech and Moravian territory</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

Sgraffito in change. Original realization vs. secondary interventions

ISBN

978-80-7560-423-1

Number of pages of the result

24

Pages from-to

60-83

Number of pages of the book

264

Publisher name

Univerzita Pardubice

Place of publication

Pardubice

UT code for WoS chapter

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