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- Title
WANDMALEREI UM 1700 IN DER STADT JIHLAVA (IGLAU): Bürger als Mäzene, Bürger als Publikum.
- Authors
Šeferisová Loudová, Michaela
- Abstract
The article deals with the question of whether the rich citizens of the 18th century Bohemian city of Jihlava (German Iglau) influenced artistic life in the city. It is widely agreed that rich citizens played only a passive role only as viewers - passive spectators of paintings or other artefacts. New research challenges this view by demonstrating numerous cases of rich citizens financing a large number of artefacts, such as the wall-paintings in the Chapel of Mater-Dolorosa in the church of St. Jacob the Greater, the church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, or wall decorations on the exterior walls of some rich private houses in Jihlava. In the first two cases, patrons were not involved in developing the iconographic programme of wall-paintings, whereas the artistic programme of decoration on the private houses was completely under their control.
- Subjects
JIHLAVA (Czech Republic); ART patronage; 18TH century art; CZECH art; RICH people; ILLUSIONISTIC ceiling painting; 18TH century mural painting &; decoration; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Acta Historiae Artis Slovenica, 2011, Vol 16, Issue 1-2, p181
- ISSN
1408-0419
- Publication type
Article