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Cranach and Bohemia. The Saxon court and church representation in the mirror of the painting in the first half of the 16th Century in Bohemia

Publication at Catholic Theological Faculty |
2011

Abstract

The chapter deals with an artistic representation of Bohemian aristocracy and Bohemian church commissioners of the period of the 1st half of the 16th Century, which is followed on the basis of a comparison with art commissions, performed by the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder for the court of Saxon dukes. Study is focused primarily on an iconographic and iconological explanation of the given works of art.