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- Bohemian Baroque Culture and Folk DevotionJohann Santini Aichel’s Nepomuk Church in Žd’ár
Bohemian Baroque Culture and Folk Devotion
Johann Santini Aichel’s Nepomuk Church in Žd’ár
- Abstract
- In 1722 Johann Santini Aichel, a Bohemian architect with Italian roots, completed the Nepomuk Church in Žd’ár. The interpretations of twentieth-century historians of this remarkably plastic and geometrically complex building were mostly directed at explaining its Italian influences. Through a meticulous reading of the church’s semantic richness, De Meyer argues for and offers a more complex understanding of the church, as a combination of Italianate Baroque culture and local devotional practices. The multiple layers and possible readings of the church are essential to its understanding and reveal its origins in the intersection of the erudite and propagandist agenda of its commissioners and that of its architect.
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- Citation
- De Meyer, D. (2011). Bohemian Baroque Culture and Folk Devotion. Johann Santini Aichel’s Nepomuk Church in Žd’ár. Baroque, OASE, (86), 6–14. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/86/BohemianBaroqueCultureAndFolkDevotion
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- December 2011
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