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The Wall Paintings in the Monastery Churche

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2017

Abstract

The chapter in the book is addressing of the wall paintings ( in the churches of the Franciscan Observant in Kadaň of the beginning of the 16th century. These wall panintings in the churches chorus (Christ on the Cross, Pietá) have a greats importace in art and iconography.

Paintings are heavily influenced by the art creation of Lucas Cranach. The wall paintings The sacrifice of Christ n the Cross and Pietá strongly resonanting with the spiritual course of the Observant Order, materialized in the in the concept of the Kadaň monatery as a site of mental pilgrimage that reiterated and revided Jan's Hasištejn of Lobkowicz experiences during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land , conductedt in 1493