Prague: MRA-CZE-Pra003
Type Sample Item
Sample ID
- MRA-CZE-Pra003
Sample Material Type
- Mural painting
Sample Sub-type
- fragment
Dimensions (cm)
- Length
- 6.2
- Width
- 2
- Height
- 0.6
- Notes
- largest fragment
Weight
- weight value (g)
- 8.14
- Notes
- all fragments together + paper
Geographic Location
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Place
- Prague
Site/monument
- Czech Republic (CZE)
Prague
Emmaus Monastery
Historical note about the site/monument
- The Emmaus Monastery (formerly called Na Slovanech) was established in 1347 at the order of the King of Bohemia and the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In its early years, the monastery’s community of Benedictine monks produced numerous manuscripts using the Croatian angular Glagolitic script in both Croatian Church Slavonic and Old Czech, fragments of which survive to this day. The monastery received a cycle of mural paintings in the 1360s, and in the 17th and 18th centuries the building was updated to reflect Baroque tastes with the addition of two temple towers. Bombing during World War II inflicted severe structural damage to the monastery, leading to the replacement of its roof and the addition of new steeples in the 1960s.
Further reading:
Simpson, A. (1984). The connections between English and Bohemian painting during the second half of the fourteenth century. New York: Garland.
Chronological period (sample)
- 14th century