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Art Nouveau Prague

At the turn of the 20th century, Prague underwent a fundamental transformation: once again, it became a prestigious centre for the life o...

Česká secese

In the 1890s, activities of the association of young artists, a result of the „secession” from the traditional art structures, unfolded i...

Bohumil Kubišta a Evropa

This book offers a new evaluation of the work of Bohumil Kubišta which exceeds the traditional format of an art-history monograph. It ana...

Pravěké umění

The book Prehistoric Art. Evolution of Man and Culture addresses the birth of human creativity in the context of the evolution of the hum...

Evoluce člověka a kultury

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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)

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