Department of Early Modern Art
The Department is concerned with research into the Renaissance, Mannerist, and Baroque art of Bohemia and Moravia in its international contexts and broader cultural connections.
Staff
PhDr. Beket Bukovinská, Mgr. Sylva Dobalová, Ph.D., Prof. PhDr. Lubomir Konečný, Mgr. Martin Krummholz, PhD., Mgr. Martin Mádl, PhD., PhDr. Ivan Muchka (Head of the Department), PhD., Mgr. Ivo Purš, PhD., PhDr. Michal Šroněk, CSc., Mgr. Štěpán Vácha, PhD.
Department publications
Research projects
History of Czech Visual Art in foreign-language versions
Grant projects
2009
The Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Paintings in the Bohemian Lands II: Giacomo Tencalla and his circle of patrons in the 1670s and 1680s
Czech Science Foundation No. 408/09/0949
An analysis of scientific, cultural, and historical aspects of Michael Maier’s theory of medical alchemy carried out chiefly on the basis of two rare extant copies of his books printed in Prague in 1609, 2007–2009
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences No. 3624435093
Research into the Ferdinand of Tirol library – aspects of history of arts and culture (2005–2008)
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences, programme "Support for targeted research projects", No. 1QS800330501
Pictures as instruments of Catholic confessional polemic in the Czech lands in the period 1550–1650, 2009-2012
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences No. IAA800330902
2008
The Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Paintings in the Bohemian Lands I: Ceiling Painting in the Context of Monastic Architecture, 2008–1010
Czech Science Foundation No. 408/08/0745
An analysis of scientific, cultural, and historical aspects of Michael Maier’s theory of medical alchemy carried out chiefly on the basis of two rare extant copies of his books printed in Prague in 1609, 2007–2009
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences No. 3624435093
2007
Beket Bukovinská (co-researcher I. P. Muchka)
The Kunstkammer of Rudolf II, 2005–2007
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences No. A800330503
Baroque mural painting in Prague (2005–2007)
Czech Science Foundation No. 408/05/0753
An analysis of scientific, cultural, and historical aspects of Michael Maier’s theory of medical alchemy carried out chiefly on the basis of two rare extant copies of his books printed in Prague in 1609, 2007–2009
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences No. 3624435093
The media and structures of confessional identity in the Czech lands in the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Age (1380–1620), 2005–2007
Czech Science Foundation No. 408/05/0574
Exhibition projects
2010
"Hans von Aachen (1552–1615) – Court Artist in Europe", Suermondt Museum Aachen – Obrazárna Pražského hradu [Prague Castle Picture Gallery], Praha. 1. 8.– 3. 10. 2010 – Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien 2010, (Lubomír Konečný, Beket Bukovinská, Ivan Muchka)
2009
"The path taken by a life. Rabbi Jehuda Leva ben Becalel (ca. 1525–1609)", Pražský hrad [Prague Castle], Praha. (joint organiser Ivo Purš),
Conferences
2010
Hans von Aachen and new research in the transfer of artistic ideas into Central Europe, Prague, 22–25 September 2010, (convenor Beket Bukovinská, Lubomír Konečný)
2008
Ceiling Painting around 1700: Public and Private Devotion in the Towns of Central Europe and North Italy, Ljubljana, 16–17 October 2008, (convenor Martin Mádl)