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The Story of Prague Castle
- 1.0169271 - UDU-I 20043007 RIV CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Benešovská, Klára
The Wisdom of the Father Enthroned in the Lap of the Mother.
The Story of Prague Castle. Prague: Prague Castle Administration, 2003, s. 128-131. ISBN 80-86161-73-0
R&D Projects: GA AV ČR KSK9056118
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z8033913
Keywords : Prague Castle * St George Convent of Benedictine nuns * iconography
Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage
The study deals with the original appearance, location and iconography of an argillite relief with Madonna on a throne, crowned with angels and with donators on the sides - abbess Agnes and her brother King Přemysl Otakar I. An interpretation of the chief motif (Thronus sapientiae) and of historical connotation (the history of the convent captured in the portrait of its chief "funders" in the 9th to 13th centuries, abbesses Mlada, Berta and Agnes).
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0066362
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