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61: 334:. Illustrations of Jan Hus as a holy martyr are captured in their oldest form, as we know from the few surviving fragments of altars from the middle of the 15th century. This monumental painting presents us with Jan Hus as a man of small stature with a round face, beardless, dressed in a liturgical white shirt. His representation with other religious saints assigns him to providence, and the founding legitimacy of the early church. Utraquists needed to present their own saint, with the traditional saints, as one of the reasons their relationship to the paintings had religious themes. Conversely the painting served as a means of spreading reform ideas, but had a didactic function for laymen unfamiliar with iconography. 97: 233:(left figure with a crown on his head), the "Burning" is dominated by the figure of a man with a princely cap. This represents Rhine Louis of Wittelsbach, to whom Sigismund handed Hus over for execution. On the altar, cover it and Jan Hus assigned to prvomučedníkům Christian church – St. James, Vol. Sebastian and St. Lawrence. The fact that the left bottom plate is shown "baking" St. Lawrence, while on the right wing is depicted the "burning of Jan Hus", is not accidental. These are parallels between the forms of martyrdom of the saints. 25: 270:, which could be instrumental in these Western European influences. These conjectures allow dating the genesis of the retable in 1470 to 1480s. In the event that the purchaser of the altar was a Hussite captain Jakoubek of Vřesovice (died in 1467) dating the retable can be shifted to the 1460s. The Church of Saint Wenceslaus in Roudníky, for which it was intended, is already mentioned as a parish in 1352, and rebuilt in the 241:
The altar wings are neither dated nor signed. The time of their creation can be inferred either by comparing to the manuscript painters in contemporary context, or biographical content of the patron of the altar. Jaromir Pešina states that the author of the piece was in contact with the artist behind
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1415–2005" (30 June – 25 September 2005). Again, the two boards exhibited in the Imperial Stables at Prague Castle during the exhibition "Art of the Czech Reformation", which took place from 16 December 2009 to 4 April 2010. The new acquisition exhibiting an altar wing of the Hussite Museum in Tabor
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discovered two door panels on which were concealed, beneath overpainting, a baroque quality pre-medieval painting dating to the 1470s. Restoration of the original painted panels was done by Bohuslav and Ludmila Slaný in 1975. The last conservation and restoration work on both boards conducted by
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in February 2009, which is got into professional care at the end of 2012. the last two altar slabs enriched the exhibition "Prague Hus and the Hussite 1415–2015", which was held in the
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Each of the truncated wing plates has dimensions of 162 x 68 cm, framed 179 x 82 cm. The inner side of the left wing appears at the top of the
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marbling, making reconversion survived the 17th and 18th centuries, since the inside of the right wing is the oldest depiction of the burning of
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Trans Montes, Podoby středověkého umění v severozápadních Čechách (Mudra A. a Ottová M,. eds.). Vydala Filozofická fakulta UK v Praze, 2014.
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panel painting. Milena Bartlová considered the painter as a member of the Prague workshop environment with knowledge of the
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academic painter Naděžda Mašková and Miroslav Křížek in the year 2013/14. The altar wings were bought from the
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are the two sides painted panels accrued before 1486. The wings were cut back and secondarily coated with
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depicts two figures in discussion, one of which with a headdress in brocade in the form of a
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The altar wings of Roudniky was exhibited in the Teresian Wing of the Old Royal Palace at
222: 217:. The contralateral altar wing (board 2 inv. No. 4336) has on the inside at the top of 168: 134: 549: 399:""The Art of the Bohemian Reformation" turns spotlight on lesser-known period of art" 343: 299:. Today it is one of the most important artistic artefacts, in the Hussite Museum in 226: 271: 151:
depicted in the Czech Gothic panel painting. It is believed to be a fragment of an
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after a period of stagnation on topics and painting techniques at the time of
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translated text and the factual accuracy of the translation should be checked
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village parish church. The altar wings exhibited at the Hussite Museum in
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Gotické deskové malířství v severozápadních a severních Čechách 1340-1550
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The finding of altar wings of Roudniky became one of the few documented
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179 cm × 82 cm (70 in × 32 in)
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Pozdně gotické umění v Čechách (1471-1526). Vydal Odeon, Praha, 1968.
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In 1966, during restoration of the village church, students of the
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http://www.jan-hus.cz/?q=cs/exponaty/oltarni-kridla-z-roudnik.html
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for the amount of CZK 12 million paid from the funds of the
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A Central Panel of a Pentaptych (The legend of S. Barbara)
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Wenceslas in Roudníky u Chabařovic (dist. Usti n / Labem).
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The meaning of the altar wings of Roudniky lies in their
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deacon. While the martyrdom of St. Sebastian depicts the
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Kališnická ikonografie a dobová zpodobnění M. Jana Husa
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in Prague from 25 September 2015 and 24 January 2016.
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Tábor

late Gothic
retable
Prague
Utraquist
Tábor
national cultural monument
Czech Republic
baroque
Jan Hus
altarpiece
Crucifixion
The Last Supper
Jakoubek of Vřesovice
Roudníky
St. James the Great
St. Lawrence
mitre
High Priest
Abiathar
Emperor Decius
palm branch
St. James the Less
St. Stephen
Emperor Diocletian
St. George's altar
late Gothic

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