Between Documentation, Imagination and Propaganda: Religious Violence in Prints Showing the Plundering of Monasteries in Prague 1611

0473030 - ÚDU 2017 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Horníčková, K. - Šroněk, Michal
Between Documentation, Imagination and Propaganda: Religious Violence in Prints Showing the Plundering of Monasteries in Prague 1611.
Umění = Art. Roč. 64, č. 6 (2016), s. 480-496. ISSN 0049-5123
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : religious violence * image * historical reality
OECD category: Arts, Art history

This article focuses on a series of prints that depict attacks on Roman Catholic monasteries in the Prague Old and New Towns and the violence inflicted on monks in connection with the Passau invasion of Prague in 1611. Making use of new cultural and historical approaches that see art works of this type as a medium of communication in the Early Modern Period, they monitor the problem of the authority of the image as a historical source, and the relationship of the image to historical reality.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0270201