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Adoration of the Three Kings from České Budějovice

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was founded in 1327 and ceased to exist in 1840. The relief of the Adoration of the Three Kings was put on show every Christmas at the Church of St Nicholas. It was later the property of the family of municipal scribe Illing, passing on to his daughter and then to his granddaughter. It was from his
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and was a member of the České Budějovice guild of goldsmiths, painters and sculptors. The conception and modelling of the relief, the genre motif of the restless child and the typology of the figures, have a close affinity to the stylistic circle of the Viennese followers of
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is standing behind Mary; with a gesture of his arm, he guards the mother and leans over the child. The restless child, whom Mary cradles in her lap, holds his mother’s veil with his right hand and holds out his left hand to the cup held by the kneeling
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Aleš Mudra, Milada Ottová, Monogramista AI – Alexander Obenstein (?): Klanění tří králů z českých Budějovic, in: Jindra P, Ottová M, (ed.), Obrazy krásy a spásy, Gotika v jihozápadních Čechách, s.341-345, Arbor Vitae,
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Against the relief’s background, comprising an indicated wall made up of cube-shaped stones, there are five almost separate figures centred around the focus of the composition – the figure of the
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It is a high relief in lime wood with partly preserved original polychromy. It measures 73 x 98 x 22 cm. It was restored by Jiří Blažej (1953-1954) and Ludmila Slánská (Prague, 1965).
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is characterised by a celebratory style free of pathos as well as by precise carving that features details observed from reality (the wrinkles and the suppleness of the child’s body).
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granddaughter that the relief was purchased in 1910 by the Town Museum, from where it was transferred to the collection of the Aleš South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou.
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and announced hope throughout the world. According to medieval ideas, they could hope for early salvation. Sculpture signatures also appear on the scenes of the
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from the workshops of other sculptors. It can be assumed that, with the depiction of this scene, the sculptor identifies with the harbingers of the Gospel.
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Jiří Kropáček, in: Katalog plastiky, Jihočeská pozdní gotika 1450-1530, s. 210-212, Alšova jihočeská galerie, Hluboká nad Vltavou 1965
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Hynek Rulíšek, Gotické umění jižních Čech, Průvodce, sv. 3, Alšova jihočeská galerie v Hluboké nad Vltavou 1989,
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Hynek Látal, Petra Lexová, Martin Vaněk, Meziprůzkumy, Sbírka AJG 1300-2016, č. 29, AJG Hluboká nad Vltavou 2016,
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Adoration of the Three Kings from České Budějovice, Aleš South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou
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Jaroslav Kadlec, Špitál sv. Václava v Českých Budějovicích. Acta regionalia. 1970—1971, s. 65—76.
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Jaroslav Kadlec, Špitál sv. Václava v Českých Budějovicích. Acta regionalia. 1970—1971, p 65—76
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Hynek Rulíšek, Gotické umění v jižních Čechách, Národní galerie v Praze 1989,
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Encyklopaedia of České Budějovice, Master of the Lamentation from Žebrák (cs)
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Albert Kutal, K výstavě jihočeská pozdní gotika 1450-1530, Umění XIV, 1966
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Encyklopaedia of České Budějovice, Hospital Church of St Wenceslaus (cs)
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This work, which was ascribed in earlier literature to the
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came from the defunct hospital Church of St Wenceslaus in
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České Budějovice
České Budějovice
Infant Jesus
Virgin Mary
Joseph
King Caspar
Melchior
Balthazar
Master E.S.
Martin Schongauer
Master of the Kefermarkt Altarpiece
Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Three Kings
Epiphany
Adoration
Master of the Lamentation from Žebrák
Upper Rhineland
Nicolaus Gerhaert van Leyden
Master of the Žebrák Lamentation
Adoration


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