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Sep 30

The Slav Epic by Alfons Mucha

Alfons Mucha (1860–1939), the most globally-known modern artist originating from the Czech lands, gained international renown in Paris at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries thanks to his original art-nouveau decorative works. He, however, viewed the real sense of his life in another work which was much more significant to him: in a…

Sep 21

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The National Gallery in Prague

The history of the National Gallery in Prague started to be written on 5 February 1796 when a group of significant representatives of the patriotically oriented Czech nobility along with several middle-class intellectuals from the ranks of Enlightenment movement decided (to put it in period terminology) to “elevate the deteriorated taste of the local public.”…