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Václav IV. Římský a český král

Doba, duchovní proudy a dění v předhusitských Čechách

Pavel Raszka

This book furnishes an inquiry into the life and work of painter Pavel Raszka against the backdrop of two world wars, the First Czechoslo...

Dva životy jednoho malíře

Baroque Prague

Lushly illustrated with more than two hundred color plates, including both historical images and contemporary photographs of architectura...

Krajiny

The publication presents a selection of Jaroslav J. Alt painting and graphic work from his later years (1980–2023). The artworks are inte...

Wenceslas IV

In dramatic circumstances on the hot summer day of 16 August 1419, Bohemian king Wenceslas IV died at Nový hrádek near Kunratice, away fr...

King of the Romans and of Bohemia and the Origins of the Hussite Revolution

Flying with Wax Wings

Josef Mánes (1820–1871) was a creator on whom the Czech revivalist society placed its hopes for the creation of a national art. Mánes was...

Josef Mánes (1820–1871)

Klášter cisterciáků v Oseku

The history of the Cistercian monastery in Osek in North Bohemia began more than eight hundred years ago. In its first part, the book pre...

Výtvarná rekonstrukce pravěku a evoluce člověka

The book introduces the reader to the developmental changes in the artistic reconstruction of the prehistoric world, especially the Upper...

Betrug der Allamoda in Prag 1660 / Podvod Allamody v Praze 1660

The comic allegory Betrug der Allamoda from the pen of Viennese-Prague Barnabite preacher Costanza Arzonni was staged twice in 1660 at th...

Czech Secession

In the 1890s in Prague, as in Munich, Vienna and Berlin, the work of young artists developed as a "secession" from traditional artistic s...

Art and Architecture 1890–1914

O sochách a sochařích

In this collection of essays, Petr Wittlich follows the story of modern European sculpture, exploring the significance of its models, the...

Degrees of Separation

In Degrees of Separation, scholars from Czechia, Canada, Germany, and Hungary take a new approach to exploring the work of one of Central...

Bohumil Kubišta and the European Avant-Garde