Looking for Leisure: The ESF Conference in Prague
The conference ’Looking for Leisure: Court Residences and their Satellites, 1400–1700 will take place 5–7 June 2014 in the Academic Conference Center Husova 4a, Prague 1, 110 00. The aim of the conference is to draw attention to small buildings in residential complexes – small only in size but not… more
Attached file: Looking for Leisure_2014.docx
The international workshop ‘The Discovery of Central-Plan Forms. Architecture in France and the Czech Lands between 1500 and 1800’
The international workshop ‘The Discovery of Central-Plan Forms. Architecture in France and the Czech Lands between 1500 and 1800’ organised by Institute of Art History ASCR and École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) – Sorbonne occurs 16–18 April 2014. The workshop is a part of the prepared… more
Attached file: EPHE_IAH_Prague 2014_program_def.pdf
Institute of Art History joins the Daguerreobase international project
The autumn of 2012 saw the launch of the unique Daguerreobase international project, with the support of the European Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). The aim of the project is to create an extensive database of daguerreotypes, daguerreotype equipment, contemporary… more
Madonnas on a Lion
The number of exhibits is modest, but in significance it surpasses most other exhibitions held by the Olomouc Museum of Art this year. It is the result of long-term painstaking research by the art historian Prof. Ivo Hlobil from the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech… more
Attached file: TZ_MUO_Goticke_madony_na_lvu.docx
Buquoysʼ Rožmberk. Visual Culture of an Aristocratic Seat in the Period of Romantic Historicism
The Buquoys’ Rožmberk publication is devoted to an important phase in modern-age building history of Rožmberk Castle, as well as to the life and art patronage of the Buquoy family who then owned the castle, especially to Georg Johann Heinrich Buquoy (1814–1882). The book charts events associated… more
Attached file: BR_obsah.docx