Abstract
The study focuses on a unique manifestation of popular art: the figuration by stucco reliefs with religious themes, from the first half of the nineteenth century, that are found on the facades of the village buildings in the region Vysočina (on the border between Bohemia and Moravia). These stucco decorations follow the example of the popular glass paintings, paintings on procession flags, but especially the motives of pilgrimage badges and medallions (so called "little sacraments").
These reliefs, documented mostly on historical photographs, decorated in a whole 11 objects in 6 localities. In most of the cases original polychromy was proven.
The themes were, besides the traditional saints, Saint Florian or Sain John Nepomucene, or Virgin Mary, also the depictions of closer or more distant pilgrimage places (Křemešník, Vranov u Brna, Sonntagberg, Lorch). Due to the fact of the limited durability of the material, as well as the social and cultural development, until today only two exemplars and one torso of the decoration were preserved.
The study is supplemented by pictorial reconstruction of the original decoration, made by the author on the basis of preserved photographs.