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„Vynikající vdovské zrcadlo“ na pozadí několika estetických myšlenek o baroku

Title in English “An excellent mirror of widows“ as a background for a few aesthetics thoughts about Baroque
Authors

ŠEBELOVÁ HNILICOVÁ Petra

Year of publication 2022
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The Print “Praecellens viduarum speculum” (“An excellent mirror of widows”) from a Jesuit author Bartholomaeus Christelius present Františka Slavatová, who was a benefactor of the Probation House in Telč, as a virtuous and devotional widow, as an example to follow. Engraver Jan Adrien Gergardt de Groos realized a frontispiece according to the pattern from a portrait and altarpieces painter Jan Jiří Heinsch. An interpretation of this engraving provide us a space for presentation of a few thoughts from sorted teoretitian in the Czech Aesthetic Thinking Questioning Baroque.
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