The form of the miraculous image of the Přeštice Pieta and its devotional copies in the Church of Přeštice

Abstract

The chapter devoted to the Baroque miraculous image of Pieta, venerated in the church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Přeštice. It is the interpretation of image restoration research and devotional copies with regard to the authorship of images and their chronological sequence.

Keywords

• Přeštice
• Bohemia
• pilgrimage
• church
• miraculous image of Pieta
• cult of images
• Baroque