Baroque Prague - Softcover

Vlnas, Vít

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8024643766 ISBN 13: 9788024643762

Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2020

Synopsis

A lavishly illustrated guide to Baroque Prague.

Lushly illustrated with more than two hundred color plates, including both historical images and contemporary photographs of architectural exteriors, Baroque Prague is an excursion through Prague from the defeat of Czech Protestants at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 to the philosophical era of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. Art historian Vít Vlnas explores both the material and spiritual transformations the city went through during this boisterous period, treating the Baroque epoch as a cultural phenomenon vital to the current genius loci of the great Central European capital. He guides readers through both the city itself and equally important Baroque monuments outside of the historical city center. A highly readable introductory study, as well as a work for experienced scholars of the history of Bohemia, Baroque Prague is an exciting homage to Europe’s great “city of a hundred spires,” and shows how a place’s storied past informs its present soul.

About this title

About the Author

Vít Vlnas is head of the Institute of Christian Art History at Charles University and head of the Center for Humanistic Studies at the Moravian Museum. Derek Paton has been translating works of Czech history, politics, and art history for more than twenty-five years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8024643766
• ISBN 13: 9788024643762
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 330