The Embellishment of St. Cyril and Methodius' Church in Prague-Karlín : Aim for the Style Integrity within the Forty Years of the Ecclesiastic Art Development
Abstract
The article concerns the embellishment of St. Cyril and Methodius' church in Prague-Karlín as a supplement to the previous article about the architectural realisation.
Part of the embellishment, realised by eminent artists of the period, was created immediately after the construction of the church, consecrated in 1863. The larger part, howeever, was not realised until much later, down to the activity of The Association for the Embellishment of Cyril and Methodius' church, founded in 1884.
Recently discovered Records of the Association, which reveal frequent backstage discussions about the assignment of the tasks and their realisations, provide, together with other archival sources, precious archival evidence. The article discusses also the unfulfilled conceptions of the embbellishment.