Pod Minerviným štítem: Kapitoly o rakouském umění ve století osvícenství a jeho vztahu ke Království českému – Preiss Pavel (2007)

Chapters on Austrian art in the Age of Enlightenment and its relationship to the Kingdom of Bohemia. In the Habsburg Empire, rooted in older traditions, there was a more distinctive movement of artistic activity than in those countries that became dependent on artistic forms shaped by the official academic institutions of the imperial metropolis. Although some areas and places in Bohemia were influenced by this, the distinctiveness of Bohemia remained greater. Significant personalities did penetrate from Vienna to Bohemia – such as J. M. Rottmayr (unreservedly in the service of the Thuns), Viennese painters originally from Eastern Bohemia J. W. Bergl and F. Wagenschön, who hold particularly captivating positions here – and the work of F. K. Palk, a graduate of the Vienna Academy, which fully developed in Bohemia and Saxony, but the paintings of Palk's contemporary and artistic companion F. A. Maulbertsch were rarely commissioned for churches in Bohemia. Thus, this grand master of Austrian painting of the 18th century could only present himself in Prague, at the Strahov Monastery, at the very end of his life with a reprise of the library program created for the monastery in Louka, Moravia. The environment shaped by the Prague artistic circle was, unlike Moravia, to some extent resistant to Maulbertsch's...