Statues in the park in Lysa nad Labem : Possibilities of using historical survey methods for the assessment of dating and authorship of sculptures in confrontation with the use of formal analysis and comparison in search of their sources of inspiration
Abstract
Article examines the group of statues in the park in Lysá nad Labem, that was commissioned by the Count František Antonín Špork and which usually been associated with the famous Baroque sculptor Matyáš Bernard Braun. This article shows the possibilities of using historical survey methods in the analysis and interpretation of the sculptures.
The main sources of new information about statues in th park in Lysá nad Labem are their pedestals, where we find the interesting clues revealing the history of the group and its main ideological program. The comparison of this group of the statues with the selected famous works of European Baroque sculpture demonstrated that its author, sculptor Johann Lang-Dlouhý, was very well focused on current trends, and that his works was not dependent only on production Prague sculpture studios.