{"title":"\"Murenulas aureas Vermiculatas argento\" : das Thesenblatt zur Disputation von Othmar Daniel Zinke (1689) als Würdigung von Abt Thomas Sartorius und Verbildlichung benediktinischer Bau- und Ausstattungstätigkeit","authors":"Anke Schlecht","doi":"10.5817/oha2022-1-2-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/oha2022-1-2-10","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines a thesis print created in 1689 to announce the disputation of Othmar Daniel Zinke (1664–1738), member of the Benedictine monasteryof Břevnov-Broumov, at the end of his studies at the Archbishop's Seminary in Prague. It was engraved by Balthasar van Westerhout (1656–1728) after a model by Johann Jakob Steinfels (1651–1730). At that time Steinfels was at the start of his career as a fresco painter. The thesis print is dedicated to Zinke's patron, abbot Thomas Sartorius (1630–1700). The programme is developed around a portrait of the abbot with Divina Providentia, St Benedict, St Wenceslas, the two monastic saints Margaret and Adalbert. Sartorius' virtues are honoured by personifications with accompanying emblems (including specific Benedictine virtues such as Humilitas and Fides benedictina). His functions and activities are summarised emblematically, especially in the field of architecture as a client. The analysis of the iconography shows in an exemplary manner how fundamental knowledge of the historical context is when deciphering emblems and the thesis print as a whole. Finally, the print can be read as an early programme of Zinke's own ideas on the role of art and architecture in the post of abbot – from 1700 Zinke himself became abbot of Břevnov-Broumov.","PeriodicalId":35074,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Historiae Artium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71352283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anton Martin Lublinský, that is Karl Dankwart : a few words about the painting Martin Středa as defender of Brno and its author","authors":"Andrzej Kozieł","doi":"10.5817/oha2022-1-2-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/oha2022-1-2-13","url":null,"abstract":"The painting Martin Středa as defender of Brno (Moravian Gallery in Brno) is the most monumental representation of the Jesuit Martin Středa / Stredonius (1587–1649), who won fame and the eternal gratitude of the citizens of Brno for his active participation in the defence of the city during the four-month siege by the Swedish army in 1645. Older authors saw Michael Willmann as the author of the painting. However, Milan Togner attributed this work to Anton Martin Lublinský (1636–1690). As it turns out today, the author of this monumental work was Karl Dankwart († 1704) – the author of numerous fresco decorations and oil paintings and court painter to the Polish king John III Sobieski. The authorship of this Silesian artist of Swedish origin is supported both by formal analogies and the provenance of the painting from the former Jesuit conventin Brno. Dankwart's painting of Father Středa was probably a part of the gallery of full-figure portraits of the founders and benefactors of the convent. We can assume that the picture was not the only work that Dankwart produced for the Jesuits of Brno.","PeriodicalId":35074,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Historiae Artium","volume":"08 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71352338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Petr Brandl – rukopis jeho podpisem : poznámky k Brandlovu malířskému rukopisu","authors":"Andrea Steckerová","doi":"10.5817/oha2022-1-2-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/oha2022-1-2-11","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of hanging paintings of the second half of the 17th and the first half of the 18th century in Bohemia, the work of Peter Brandl (1668–1735) stood out for its stylistic and brushwork concept. From the beginning of his work, the painter gravitated above all to an energetic very dynamic presentation expressed through a divided brushwork and lively work with a brush. From the beginning, he applied dense layers of paint only to some parts of a painting – he tested his technical approaches on compositions with figures of old people – similar to Rembrandt. Since the 1720s whole compositions have been formed using the impasto technique – also evident is engraving with the brush handle or fingernail and the touch of fingers on the still-drying layer of paint. The study tries to answer questions about Brandl's brushwork style, which has always been valued by art historians as original and modern – but could it also have been perceived as such in its own time? The brushwork style was already connected by historiographers of the 17th century with an artist's nature and his \"spirit\", but the very topic of the work could also have had an effect on it. The point of view of the client, who may have required a certain style of brushwork, cannot be ignored either. These and other aspects are addressed in this study, which focuses mainly on the works of Brandl's peak period – that is, on the 1720s.","PeriodicalId":35074,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Historiae Artium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71352454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die \"Taufe Christi\" im Werk von Johann Lucas Kracker","authors":"Anna Jávor","doi":"10.5817/oha2022-1-2-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/oha2022-1-2-8","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the set of drawings by Johann Lucas Kracker (1719–1779) has been enlarged with 12 pieces. The sheets preserved in the museum of Debrecen include a sketch showing the baptism of Christ in the Jordan. It is the first variant of the high altar of the Premonstratensian abbey in Jasov. Two exquisite painted oil sketches for the enormous picture of the high altar signed in 1762 (Košice / Jasov, Bratislava, Slovak National Gallery) have long been known. The drawing is a far simpler composition with few figures, reminiscently of Daniel Gran's painting for the high altar of Vienna's church of the Brothers Hospitallers (1736). The painted sketches were extended with genre figures from the motivic set of Paul Troger (1698–1762) and with the large angel holding a drapery behind Jesus. Kracker painted another two reduced versions on the basis of the sketches: for a side altar in the remonstratensian church in Nová Říše and a small mural for the church of Rancířov (1763). To the picture of the high altar in Jasov a monumental fresco cycle belongs narrating the legend of John the Baptist; their epic character suggests the inspiration of the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark and Luke, while the drawn sketch was presumably inspired by St John's Gospel. The commission was given by abbot Andreas Sauberer (1700–1779).","PeriodicalId":35074,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Historiae Artium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71352250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Planety v rocaillové architektuře ze zámku ve Lnářích a Johann Georg Hertel","authors":"Radka Nokkala Miltová","doi":"10.5817/oha2022-1-2-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/oha2022-1-2-15","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the analysis of paintings of planets in the château at Lnáře from the period after the middle of the 18th century, which were created according to graphics from the rich Augsburg output of Johann Georg Hertel (1700–1775). The Lnáře remnants of the cycle of planetary gods show a symbiosis of two principles. On the one hand, a long tradition, dating from late antiquity and maintained through late medieval and early modern graphic series; on the other hand, the impulses of progressive astronomical observations. The more or less receptive character of Hertel' series thus shows above all the emphasis on the contemporary fashion Rococo mode in which the figural compositions are embedded.","PeriodicalId":35074,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Historiae Artium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71352380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"afermo quanto di sopra con mio giuramento\" : dvanáct benátských malířů osvědčuje v roce 1714 pravost obrazů","authors":"Lubomír Slavíček","doi":"10.5817/oha2022-1-2-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/oha2022-1-2-16","url":null,"abstract":"The article publishes an interesting cultural and historical document, a list one hundred paintings by Italian, Dutch and German artists from the 15th to the 17th centuries, compiled in the autumn of 1714 by twelve Venetian painters, mostly members of the local Collegio dei Pittori. This notarized certificate (today at the Archive of the National Gallery in Prague), in which they confirmed with their signatures the authenticity of the pictures under assessment and the authenticity of their authorship as declared, was donated in 1934 to the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art, predecessor of the National Gallery in Prague, by collector Joe Hloucha (1881–1957). However, its earlier provenance has yet to be determined. The introductory text sheds light on the emergence of similar experts' reports, which in Venice were a necessary precondition for the trade in Old Masters paintings. At the same time, it seeks to present the personalities of well-known but now more or less forgotten painters who compiled the certificate, bringing us closer to the authorial, thematic and genre mix of the picture collection, and last but not least to indicate the possible identification of some of the works of art recorded in the listing.","PeriodicalId":35074,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Historiae Artium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71352013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jezuitská kolej v Olomouci a neznámá skica Jana Kryštofa Handkeho","authors":"Tomáš Valeš","doi":"10.5817/oha2022-1-2-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/oha2022-1-2-14","url":null,"abstract":"The study is devoted to a hitherto anonymous oil sketch from the collections of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, in which a hitherto unknown work of the Olomouc painter Johann Christoph Handke (1694–1774) was recognized. The work with the themes of the Celebration of the Lamb of God and the Parable of the Feast was most probably created in 1726 in connection with the painter’s commission to paint the refectory of the Jesuit college in Olomouc.","PeriodicalId":35074,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Historiae Artium","volume":"237 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71352370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gottfried von Rotenstein besucht Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts Südmähren","authors":"Mária Pötzl-Malíková","doi":"10.5817/oha2022-1-2-17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/oha2022-1-2-17","url":null,"abstract":"The contribution reports on the ennobled Bratislava pharmacist Johann Gottfried Stegmüller, who published reports from his numerous travels in Central Europe in the 1780s and 1790s under the name Gottfried Edler von Rotenstein. In particular, he visited with great interest luxurious aristocratic dwellings, where he then described with unusual precision every detail of their furnishings. The quantity of information contained in his descriptions is appreciated especially by art historians, who have thereby gained many interesting findings. In addition, his descriptions of major festivities are also interesting for the study of social change in the 18th century. In September 1782, Rotenstein undertook a tour of southern Moravia, to which the second part of the paper is devoted. His journey passed through Valtice, Lednice, Židlochovice to Brno, and from there to Austerlitz by Brno. With the exception of Lednice, where he found the gates closed, he could view all the châteaux mentioned in detail. He also gave attention to their large parks and gardens. A second journey to Moravia was made by Rotenstein in November 1790. In his report, he focused on a description of several days of festivities at the château in Valtice, on the occasion of the visit of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies.","PeriodicalId":35074,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Historiae Artium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71352067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maulbertsch's \"Liberation of the Virgin\" in the Moravian Gallery in Brno : on the relationship of Franz Anton Maulbertsch to Peter Paul Rubens","authors":"Ivo Krsek","doi":"10.5817/oha2022-1-2-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/oha2022-1-2-3","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":35074,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Historiae Artium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71352124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"mit gleicher andacht alle Ins gesambt Täglich betten\" : nástěnné malby Josefa Sterna v kapli Paláce šlechtičen v Brně","authors":"Michaela Šeferisová Loudová","doi":"10.5817/oha2022-1-2-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/oha2022-1-2-7","url":null,"abstract":"The chapel of the Palace of Noble Ladies represents a unique sacral space, decorated in 1756 with murals by Josef Stern (1716–1775), a leading painter of the second half of the 18th century in Moravia. In the interior of the chapel, poor maidens from aristocratic and burgher families met for daily prayers; they lived in the palace by the cut-down rules for monastic communities under the protection of a specially established foundation. It was to them that the remarkable, didactically focused iconographic programme of Stern’s paintings was to speak. Recently completed restoration work, the aim of which was the complete restoration of the murals and the entire interior of the chapel, have given rise to new reflections not only on the formally stylistic aspects of Stern’s ceiling paintings and their themes, but also on the broader context of their origin, including the functioning of the foundation and the upbringing of its wards.","PeriodicalId":35074,"journal":{"name":"Opuscula Historiae Artium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71352196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}