Assoc. Prof. PhDr. Michal Šroněk, CSc.

Researcher at the Department of Early Modern Art.

Michal Šroněk studied art history and aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, from where he graduated in 1976. Between 1976 and 1983, he worked in the District Museum in Ústí nad Labem as an art historian and curator. In 1983, he joined the IAH CAS, first as a doctoral candidate and later as a researcher specializing in Renaissance and Baroque art in Bohemia and Central Europe. In 1992/1993, he received the Alfred Bader scholarship and spent six months studying in Rome and Vienna. Between 2003 and 2004, he worked at Geisteswissenschaftliches Centrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas E.V. as a researcher and co-investigator of the project Konfessionalisierung headed by prof. W. Eberhard. Since 2008, he has been employed with the Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, at first as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor and deputy director of the Institute of Art and Culture Studies.

Research outputs (selection):

Michal Šroněk, The Representation Practices of the Prague Painters’ Guild in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, in: Faces of Community in Central European Towns: Images, Symbols, and Performances, 1400–1700, Kateřina Horníčková ed., Lanham, MA: Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield 2018, pp. 149–194.

Michal Šroněk, The Jesuits and their Urban Visual Presence in the Bohemian Lands, in: Faces of Community in Central European Towns: Images, Symbols, and Performances, 1400–1700, Kateřina Horníčková ed., Lanham, MA: Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield 2018, pp. 279–310.

Michal Šroněk, The Unity of the Brethren and Images, From Hus to Luther. Visual culture in the Bohemian reformation (1380–1620), Kateřina Horníčková and Michal Šroněk eds., Turnhout 2016, pp. 193–218.

Michal Šroněk, Calvinist Views on Religious Images in Bohemia, From Hus to Luther. Visual culture in the Bohemian reformation (1380–1620), Kateřina Horníčková and Michal Šroněk eds., Turnhout 2016, pp. 231–246.

Michal Šroněk, De sacris imaginibus: patroni, malíři a obrazy předbělohorské Prahy, Praha 2013.

Kateřina Horníčková – Michal Šroněk (eds), Umění české reformace 1380–1620, Praha 2010.

Michal Šroněk, Jan Jiří Heinsch (1647–1712). Malíř barokní zbožnosti, Praha 2006.

Michal Šroněk – Jaroslava Hausenblasová, Gloria et Miseria. Praha v době třicetileté války, Praha 1998.

Michal Šroněk, Pražští malíři 1600–1650. Mistři, tovaryši, učedníci a štolíři v Knize Staroměstského malířského cechu. Biografický slovník, Praha 1997.

Michal Šroněk, Barokní malířství 17. století v Čechách, in: Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II/1, Praha 1989, pp. 323–355.

Current projects:

The Idea and its Realization: the Art Culture of the Society of Jesus in the Czech Lands (GAČR 17-11912S, 2017–2019) – principal investigator