Showing posts with label Bohemia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bohemia. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 February 2011

Underglass Painting


This traditional folk artform was to be found throughout the Sumava. Usually dealing with a religious image, the painting is applied to the back of the glass. Once most houses would have had at least one devotional painting like this, which were sold at pilgrimage sites and markets.

As part of our Bohemian Art Tour participants will receive a three hour workshop in the art of underglass painting.

Monday, 20 December 2010

St Wenceslas

This lovely Gothic statue of the Good King of Bohemia (the king who in the carol looked out on the feast of Stephen) is to be found in the Gothic art gallery in Jindrichuv Hradec District Museum. The gallery has some beautiful examples of Czech Gothic woodcarving.