Martin Mádl, Anke Schlecht, Marcela Vondráčková
The book contains three studies dedicated to the sketches of Václav Vavřinc Reiner (from the National Gallery collection in Prague) and decorations in the Benedictine monastery in Břevnov. Anke Schlecht focuses on the formal analysis of paintings and commentary on individual iconographic motifs and particularly on the destruction of banned fine art books in the early modern period. Martin Mádl attemps to sketch the ceiling frescos proposed for the monastic library hall along with the unrealized Břevnov monastic library decorations. His work also hones in on the conflict between traditional Catholics and the new Enlightenment concept of natural law as well as its role in art. The contents of the sketches are then explained with regard to religious and historical Benedictine sentiments as well as the relationship to education. Marcela Vondráčková then expounds upon preserved decoration in the Břevnov library, in which the allegorical paintings of Felix Anton Scheffler can be seen.
Martin Mádl, Anke Schlecht, Marcela Vondráčková
First edition, German, 176 p., 86 colour and black-and-white illustrations, Prague 2006
ISBN 80-86890-09-0
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