Mgr. Markéta Janotová

Head of the Department of the Photographic Library – Photographic Studio

Markéta Janotová holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (2010). During her graduate studies, she participated in an academic exchange program at the University of Granada, where she focused on sociology and cultural anthropology (2008).

Since 2010, she has been working at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, initially as a specialist in the Department of the Photographic Library – Photographic Studio. In 2016, she was appointed head of the department. Her responsibilities include coordinating photographic documentation both in the field and in the studio, managing and cataloguing photographic materials in electronic databases, and overseeing copyright matters related to the reproduction of images for scholarly publications and exhibition projects, both in the Czech Republic and internationally.

Professional Outputs (selection):

www.sudekproject.cz – Co-author of the specialized public database Public Database of the Josef Sudek Photography Collection at the Photo Library of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (RIV entry, co-authored with Martin Pavlis and František Hlaváč), 2020

Reproductions of Works of Art and Copyright Law, expert workshop organized within the Sudek Project, Academic Conference Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, June 12, 2017

Collaboration on projects (organization and coordination of photography, cataloguing and metadata management):

2023–2027 – Preserving Memory: Post-War Reflections on the Holocaust in Monuments and Visual Arts (NAKI III project, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic)

2016–2020 – Gothic and Early Renaissance Art in Eastern Bohemia: Research, Interpretation, and Presentation (NAKI II project, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic)

2016–2020 – Transformations of Rural Architecture with Emphasis on the 19th and 20th Century (NAKI II project, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic)

Selected Publications (photographic coordination and documentation):

Petr Pavelec (ed.), Středověká nástěnná malba v jižních Čechách, 1. díl, Národní památkový ústav České Budělovice, 2023.

Kristina Uhlíková (ed.), Dalibor Prix, Štěpán Vácha, Věra Slavíková, Helena Dáňová, Jana Oppeltová, Městský chrám sv. Vavřince ve Vysokém Mýtě, Praha 2022.

Helena  Dáňová – Ivo Hlobil – Klára Mezihoráková – Dalibor Prix (eds.), Uprostřed Koruny české. Gotické a raně renesanční umění východních Čech 1250–1550. I díl: Studie, II. díl Katalog II/1 a II/2, Praha 2020.

Benešovská, Klára – Kubínová, Kateřina (eds.), Imago, imagines I, II. Výtvarné dílo a proměny jeho funkcí v českých zemích od 10. do první třetiny 16. století, Praha 2019.

Taťána Petrasová a Rostislav Švácha (eds) - Dějiny umění v českých zemích 800–2000”, nakladateství Artefactum, Arbor vitae societas,  Praha 2018.

Current projects:  

Art monuments / Prague Architectural Manual Prague (Grant MK)