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Vlasta Dvoráková, Josef Krása, Anezka Merhautová, and Karel Stejskal.
Gothic Mural Painting in Bohemia and Moravia 1300-1378.
Publisher: Oxford U.P., 1964.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; tinted tops, bound-in silk bookmark.
Printed in Czechoslovakia.
Size: 220x298x30mm.
Page count: text 160pp; plates 248pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy’s dustjacket is very ragged, with its front flyleaf price-clipped; the book has some mild foxing on the page edges, boards a little grubby with some mild wear on the edges and corners, but in other respects looks in reasonable condition; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 1807g.

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Contents:
Historical & social background to the mural painting of 1300-50;
Short survey of mural painting 1300-50;
Historical & social background to development of court art under Charles IV, 1350-78;
Ideological design of Karlstejn Castle & its pictorial decoration;
The new cathedral & subjects of its pictorial design;
Typological cycle in cloisters of Emmaus — iconographical analysis;
Karlstejn Castle — phases I & II of pictorial decoration — stylistic analysis;
Work of court painters in Emmaus monastery, Prague;
Karlstejn Castle — phase III of pictorial decoration;
Paintings in cathedral of St. Vitus Prague;
Paintings outside court circle, 1350-78.
Appendix: Catalogue of paintings

Illustrations: 228 pages of monochrome plates and 20 of colour
Maps & plans:2

Notes: none
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 8pp
Index: Iconographical

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See also | Murals & frescoes | Gothic |
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