Ms Klára Benešovská made a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Ms Klára Benešovská made a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

We have great pleasure in announcing that our colleague, the art historian PhDr. Klára Benešovská, CSc., Head of the Department of Mediaeval Art at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, was made a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Chevalier de l’Ordre de Mérite du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg) in Prague, on the premises of the Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in the Czech Republic, Estonia and the Ukraine, on Wednesday, 18 November, 2015. The order of knighthood was conferred by Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Nassau, and Dr. Benešovská received it at the hands of Her Excellency Michèle Pranchère-Tomassini, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Dr. Benešovská was awarded this state decoration for her longstanding research work and outstanding results in the field of the historical and cultural relationships and artistic exchanges between Luxembourg and Bohemia during the reigns of John of Luxembourg and Charles IV. The most important scholarly achievements of Dr. Benešovská on this theme include the following publications:

Klára Benešovská (ed.), A Royal Marriage. Elisabeth Premyslid and John of Luxembourg – 1310. Praha, Muzeum hlavního města Prahy 2011, 601 s.

 

The House at the Stone Bell: Royal Representation in Early-Fourteenth-Century Prague, in: Zoë Opačić (ed.), Prague and Bohemia. Medieval Art, Architecture and Cultural Exchange in Central Europe. London, The British Archaeological Association and Maney Publishing 2009, s. 48–63 (The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, 32).

 

L’art à la cour des derniers Luxembourg. Perspective. Actualités de la recherche en histoire de l’art. La revue de L’INHA 2008, č. 1 (Antiquité – Moyen Âge), s. 138–145.

 

Le bouleversement de la mise en scène du pouvoir. L’art en Bohême à l’époque des rois Wenceslas IV (1378–1419) et Sigismond de Luxembourg (1420–1437), in: Michel Pauly – François Reinert (eds.), Sigismund von Luxemburg. Ein Kaiser in Europa. Tagungsband des internationalen historischen und kunsthistorischen Kongresses in Luxemburg, 8.–10. Juni 2005. Mainz am Rhein, Verlag Philipp von Zabern 2006, s. 263–284.

 

Klára Benešovská (ed.), King John of Luxembourg (1296–1346) and the Art of his Era. Proceedings of the International Conference, Prague, September 16–20, 1996. Praha, Koniasch Latin Press 1998, 368 s.

 

Mein italienischer Studienaufenthalt war Forschung über den Italienzug Johanns von Luxemburg von 1330 bis 1333 gewidmet, in: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Jahresbericht 1993. Firenze, Kunsthistorisches Institut [1994], s. 52–53.

 

 

 

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