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The statue stands on a massive three-piece pedestal with a slightly convex protruding central part. The pedestal is terminated by a distinctly shaped profiled cornice in the central part, swept into a segment, at the top of which is a relief shell. On the sides of the pedestal there are huge volute wings, the lower - larger - volutes are decorated with plant motifs, the upper - smaller - rocaille motifs. In the center of the protruding front of the circular medallion with the tongue of St. John of Nepomuk, framed by a wavy line and cross-sprigs with flowers and a halo. On the front wall of the pedestal of the year 1793. The decorative and decorative relief of the pedestal consists of classicist ornamentation - coin framing, festons and roses with roses, pearl pearl, floral curtains with bows, horizontal and vertical forging decorated with sunken pancakes. The upper part of the plinth is decorated with a plastic cord, in the lower part of the pedestal there are six unequal tall pipes with relief tassels. The lower part of the cornice is decorated with a dentist and plant motifs. Carved Czech dedicatory inscription on the back wall of the pedestal, hard to read, as the statue is improperly set just in front of the high retaining wall. On the pedestal there is a statue of a saint in the usual concept, on the left forearm he holds a crucifix, his right hand with a biret is lowered freely according to the body. The saint is dressed in a canonical robe, standing on a cloud, in a counterpoint, with his glass head to his left shoulder. At his feet on the sides, two angels sit on the clouds, one holding a palm branch, the other holding a lock, and my finger resting on my lips as a sign of silence. The saint's robe is processed in a dynamic movement and shaped in distinctive deep diagonal and vertical folds. Material - sandstone. The sculpture was secondarily installed - it was transferred.
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Saint John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (Czech: Jan Nepomucký; German: Johannes Nepomuk; Latin: Ioannes Nepomucenus (c. 1345 – March 20, 1393) is the saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic), who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus, King of the Romans and King of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia and refused to divulge the secrets of the confessional. On the basis of this account, John of Nepomuk is considered the first martyr of the Seal of the Confessional, a patron against calumnies and, because of the manner of his death, a protector from floods and drowning.
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The general attributes of sculpture of St. John of Nepomuk: priestly dress, halo of five stars, the Cross, finger over the lips.
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Jan ci Johánek z Pomuka (mezi 1340 a 1350 v Pomuku, dnešním Nepomuku – 20. brezna 1393 v Praze) byl generální vikár pražského arcibiskupa, pozdeji uctívaný jako svatý Jan Nepomucký, mucedník katolické církve a jeden z ceských zemských patronu.
Od roku 1369 pusobil jako verejný notár v Praze. Poté pusobil jako hlavní písar u práve vytvorených soudních akt generálních vikáru. Mezi lety 1373–1383 požíval titulu notarius, prothonotarius cancellarie a domesticus commensalis arcibiskupa Jana Ocka z Vlašimi. V zárí 1389 byl jmenován generálním vikárem pražského arcibiskupa po Kuneši z Trebovle.
Kvuli velkému západnímu schizmatu vzniklo neprátelství mezi ceským králem Václavem IV. a arcibiskupem Jenem z Jenštejna. Dne 20. brezna 1393 se brzo ráno sešel král Václav IV. s Janem z Jenštejna. Po krátké hádce nechal král zajmout ctyri muže z arcibiskupova doprovodu, Jana z Pomuka, Mikuláše Puchníka, míšenského probošta Václava Knoblocha a laika arcibiskupského hofmistra Nepra z Roupova. Ti byli vyslýcháni na Pražském hrade, poté na Staromestské radnici, kde byl posléze držen Nepr a ostatní byli presunuti do staromestské rychty (dnes dum c. 12 na rohu ulic Rytírské a Na Mustku), kde byli muceni. Jan zemrel behem tohoto mucení, ostatní byli propušteni. Okolo deváté vecer pak bylo jeho telo svrženo z dnešního Karlova mostu do Vltavy.
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Obecné atributy vyobrazení Jana Nepomuckého: kanovnické roucho, biret, pet hvezd kolem hlavy, kríž, palmeta, prst u úst, kniha, ruženec