Pohled ze Zelneho trhu k Melantrichove ulici by Vaclav Jansa - Prague, Czech Republic
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Pohled ze Zelneho trhu k Melantrichove ulici // A view from Havel's market (former Zelný trh) towards Melantrichova Street
Waymark Code: WMTQXT
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/01/2017
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The painting shows the house 'U Mrázu' (
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Melantrichova Street is the main cut-through from Old Town Square to Wenceslas Square, and, for the most part, a tacky shopping street in Prague aimed at the tourists flitting between the city’s sights.
The author of this painting is Václav Jansa. You can find this painting in book 'Starou Prahou Václava Jansy' (
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Vaclav Jansa (October 22, 1859 Slatinice - June 29, 1913 Cernošice) (
visit link) Czech landscape artist and illustrator, best known for these views, originally painted in water-colour.
Jansa was apprenticed to buyers, but later he devoted himself to his hobby of drawing and painting. Vaclav Jansa traveled a lot and took to painting landscapes. He painted mostly southern Bohemia and Giant Mountains. Since 1893 was redeveloped historic districts of Prague, Prague ghetto and parts of the Old and New Town. In this time Jansa painted cca 150 colored watercolors documenting disappearing part of the city.
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Pruhled Melantrichovou smerem ke Staromestskému námestí, rohový dum c.p. 504/1 U Mrázu na Havelském (dríve Zelném) trhu, puvodne gotický, renesancne a klasicistne upravený. Dále dobre viditelné domy c.p. 467/1 U Trí divokých hus, Housenkovic ci U Trí divokých kachen a 466/1 U Zlatého Iva ci U Cerveného vlcáka a v zákrytu pak c.p. 465/1 U Peti korun a 464/1 U Košíku ci U Modré lodi, všechny domy jsou stredovekého puvodu po mnoha prestavbách s renesancními, barokními ci klasicistními fasádami. V pruhledu dum c.p. 463/1 U Svatých trí králu ci Teyfluv dum, postavený opet na gotických základech, po dalších prestavbách má dum dnes rokokovou fasádu z doby po roce 1768.