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Bohemia and the C̆echs; the History, People
BOHEMIA!«K-fSi&-ta^Hj AND THE C'^tiS^. n 7 5 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Worses of WILL S. MONROK Turkey and the Turks - - - $3.00 In Viking Land: Norway, Its Peo- ples, Its Fjords, and Its Fjelds - 3.00 Sicily, the Garden of the Mediterra- nean -------- 3.00 Bohemia and the Cechs - - - - 3.00 L. C. PAGE ca. COMPANY 53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. The original of tliis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31 9240281 01 073 A PEASANT GIKL. BOHEMIA AND THE CECHS THE HISTORY, PEOPLE, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE GEOGRAPHY OE THE KINGDOM, TOGETHER WITH ACCOUNTS OF MORAVIA AND SILESIA I BY WILL S. MONROE AUTHOB OP "turkey AND THE TtFBKS," "iN VIKING LAND: NOEWAY; its peoples, its fjords and its PJBLDS," "SICILY, THE GARDEN OF THE MEDITERRANEAN," ETC. i ILLUSTRATED i L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY BOSTON ^ ^ %J» MDCCCCX m \Aouroe^ \a1\1\ Sevjmour-^ \o^B Copyright, X910, By L. C. Page & Company (mCOBPOBATED) Entered at Stationers'' Hall, London All rights reserved First Impression, August, 1910 / Slectrotyped and Printed by THE COLONIAL PSESS C. H. Simanda & Co., Boston, U.S.A. "R.B.D. DEDICATED TO PROFESSOB FEANTISeK CXdA, Ph.D., OF THE UNIVERSITY OP PRAGUE, ONE OP THE AUTHOB'B OLDEST AND MOST ESTEEMED BOHEMIAN FBIENDS FOREWORD When one recalls the large number of popu- lar geographical works that have been pub- lished in recent times, it will surprise many readers to learn that this is the first general work of travel and description on Bohemia in English. -
In Heaven and on Earth: Church Treasure in Late Medieval Bohemia
In Heaven and on Earth: Church Treasure in Late Medieval Bohemia by Kateřina Horníčková Submitted to Central European University Department of Medieval Studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz Budapest, Hungary 2009 CEU eTD Collection - i- Table of content Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................................. iv Plates on CD ROM ................................................................................................................................... v Maps.................................................................................................................................................... vii Abbreviations......................................................................................................................................... viii Foreword ................................................................................................................................................... 1 Part I – Treasures of churches in prospective ............................................................................... 3 I. The Medieval Treasure as a Research Subject ...................................................................................... 3 1. The Treasure in Medieval Culture .................................................................................................... 3 2. The Treasury, the Church and the Public......................................................................................... -
Adoption of Habsburg Portrait Models for Aristocratic Likenesses in the Czech Lands OPEN ACCESS in the Reign of Ferdinand I*
Adoption of Habsburg Portrait Models for Aristocratic Likenesses in the Czech Lands OPEN ACCESS in the Reign of Ferdinand I* Blanka Kubíková In the reign of Ferdinand I of Habsburg, important examples of portrait painting were done in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Though few examples of Renaissance portraiture of that period have survived, there are some noteworthy portraits dating from 1526–1564. The paper focuses on the reception of the so-called Habsburg portrait type in portrait painting in Bohemia and Moravia and examines the purpose for which the commissioners used it. Two specific approaches will be illustrated on the portrait cycle of Adam I of Hradec and his family, painted by Jacob Seisenegger and dated 1529, and portraits of William of Rosenberg, his brother and sisters, commissioned between 1552 and 1554. In both cases, the commissioners were persons of the highest rank in Bohemian aristocratic society. KEYWORDS: Renaissance in Bohemia; Portrait Painting; Portrait Galleries; Aristocratic Picture Galleries The portrait is an efficient form of representation for a ruler and his dynasty. Portraiture thrived in the 16th century, its compositional variants quickly developing until popular formulas became established. Other social strata adopted portrait compositions from the highest ruling circles, and in so doing helped to spread and popularize them. The Habsburg dynasty carefully built up its propagandistic image, gradually codifying the portrait depictions of the Emperor and his family in the course of the 16th century. The three-quarter or full-length portrait in contrapposto showing the Emperor as a man of noble rank became most popular.1 Around the 1550s, this type of portrait spread throughout the empire, and certain variants to neighbouring European countries. -
Report on an Imperial Mission to Bohemia, 1451, by Enea Silvio Piccolomini
Report on an Imperial Mission to Bohemia, 1451, by Enea Silvio Piccolomini . Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 3rd preliminary version. (Reports on Five Diplomatic Missions by Enea Silvio Piccolomini; 3) Michael Von Cotta-Schönberg To cite this version: Michael Von Cotta-Schönberg. Report on an Imperial Mission to Bohemia, 1451, by Enea Silvio Pic- colomini . Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 3rd preliminary version. (Reports on Five Diplomatic Missions by Enea Silvio Piccolomini; 3). 2020. hal-02907943v3 HAL Id: hal-02907943 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02907943v3 Submitted on 11 Feb 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. (Reports on Five Diplomatic Missions by Enea Silvio Piccolomini; 3) 0 Report on an Imperial Mission to Bohemia, 1451, by Enea Silvio Piccolomini. Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg 3rd version 2021 1 Abstract In 1451, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Bishop of Siena and senior imperial diplomat, went on a mission for Emperor Friedrich III to Bohemia. The purpose of the mission was to communicate to the Bohemian estates the emperor’s refusal to end his wardship over the Bohemian boy king, Ladislaus, then 11 years old. -
Villa Kratochvíle As an Example of an Italian Garden in the Czech Lands
ACTA UNIVERSITATIS AGRICULTURAE ET SILVICULTURAE MENDELIANAE BRUNENSIS Volume 65 126 Number 4, 2017 https://doi.org/10.11118/actaun201765041213 VILLA KRATOCHVÍLE AS AN EXAMPLE OF AN ITALIAN GARDEN IN THE CZECH LANDS Zora Kulhánková1 1Department of Garden and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Horticulture, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic Abstract KULHÁNKOVÁ ZORA. 2017. Villa Kratochvíle as an Example of an Italian Garden in the Czech Lands. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 65(4): 1213 – 1223. The paper deals with an example of the Italian garden applied as a type in the Czech lands. Villa Kratochvíle is one of the very few cases of an independently created Renaissance villa in the territory of the Czech Republic. Its author was an Italian builder coming from the area around Como Lake – Baldassare Maggi and he was commissioned by a significant Czech nobleman, William of Rosenberg. Villa Kratochvíle together with the surrounding landscape is compared with the landscape of lakes around Mantua and Palazzo Te, which is typologically similar. Especially the use of large water bodies is what these two places and their surrounding landscape have in common. Italian arts came to the Czech lands directly with Italian artists – one of them was the garden design. However, it was transformed there by the cultural tradition as well as the geographical location. Keywords: villa Kratochvíle, history of garden design, Czech historic garden, garden design development, Czech Renaissance INTRODUCTION for the ruler and important aristocrats. One of Czech lands had an important position in the most important ones was William of Rosenberg, the political and cultural sphere of Europe in the first who served as the High Burgrave. -
V Jižních Čechách Welcome to South Bohemia Willkommen in Südböhmen
VÍTEJTE v jižních Čechách Welcome to South Bohemia Willkommen in Südböhmen www.jiznicechy.cz www.jiznicechy.cz TIC Mercury Turistické informační centrum TIC Mercury Nádražní 1759, 370 01 České Budějovice [email protected] +420 728 547 585 Turistické informační centrum Jižní Čechy se nachází v DOC Mercury nedaleko historického centra Českých Bu- dějovic. Veškeré informace o městě či tipy na výlety v širo- kém i blízkém okolí jsou připraveni poskytnout všem návštěvníkům pracovníci infocentra, a to denně od 8 do 20 h. Samozřejmostí je i nabídka magnetek a pohlednic či originálních dárků z jižních Čech v podobě regionálních produktů. MERCURY TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE The South Bohemia Tourist Information Centre is found in DOC Mercury near the historical centre of České Budějovice. Staff at the information centre are on hand to provide visitors with all the information they might need about the city, as well as tips for trips in the wider and closer surroundings. Daily from 8 am to 8 pm. A range of magnets, postcards and regional products, original gifts from South Bohemia, are naturally all on sale. TOURISMUSINFORMATIONSZENTRUM TIC MERCURY Das Tourismusinformationszentrum Südböhmen befindet sich im Verkehrseinkaufszentrum DOC Mercury in der Nähe des historischen Zentrums von @jiznicechy České Budějovice. Die Mitarbeiter des Infozentrums halten für alle Besucher sämtliche Informationen über die Stadt sowie Tipps zu Ausflügen in die nähere und weitere Umgebung bereit, und dies täglich von 8 bis 20 Uhr. Ein großes Angebot an Magneten und Ansichtskarten oder originellen Jižní Čechy patří k nejatraktivnějším turistickým regionům Česka. Roz- Geschenken aus Südböhmen in Form regionaler Produkte versteht sich von selbst.