Barokní srdce Evropy – Krejčí Petr (2022)

The Czech and Moravian landscape is naturally endowed with diversity. For its small size, it offers an incredible number of different landscape types and countless nooks and crannies. Among them, the Baroque style is inseparable. It can astonish, impress, and move with its monumentality, but especially with its genius in blending with its immediate surroundings, whether it be the breathtaking architectural pearls in the form of temples or grand residences, or the small gems of rural churches and farmhouses scattered across the country. But we are particularly breathless because we consciously or unconsciously associate them with a sense of home. Baroque has truly settled in Bohemia and Moravia. It has become popular. Come with us to explore the Baroque beauties of the heart of Europe. You will be surprised by how much ingenuity and skill, courage and talent, incredible diligence, tenacity... and faith lie behind that charm. And how much deception, optical illusions, and special visual effects, complete tricks with light and shadow there are. In Baroque architecture, however, it is not just about effect. It is a message about the meeting of man with God. A trilingual illustrated publication based on the eponymous television documentary celebrating both well-known and half-forgotten Baroque gems in the Czech landscape. The Baroque cycle...