Stara prelatura na Starem Meste by Jan Minarik - Prague, Czech Republic
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Stara prelatura na Starem Meste // Old prelature of the church St. Nicholas
Waymark Code: WMTR0A
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/01/2017
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High Baroque church, at present time used by the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, is one of Prague’s most important monuments. Baroque domed building was built according to a plan by K. I. Dientzenhofer in 1732-35 on the site of an older, demolished church; the original church was founded in the 13th century by German merchants and later (from 1635) it belonged to Slavic Benedictines who built an extensive monastery complex there.
Beside this church was The Old Prelature, a birthplace of writer Franz Kafka. After the dissolution of the monastery in 1787 was used for various purposes.
The author of this painting is Jan Minarík. You can find this painting in book 'Starou Prahou Jana Minaríka' (
visit link) .
Jan Bedrich Minarík (December 15, 1862, Prague-Vyšehad - May 26, 1937) (
visit link) , was a Czech painter and graphic artist, pupil J. Marák at the Prague Academy. He became famous as a painter of motifs disappearing part of Prague. His work falls within the years 1907-1911. His paintings captured Josefov district and some parts of the Old Town and New Town. Also captured a number of motifs vanishing areas or individual houses. He also painted on Vysehrad, Mala Strana and Prague Castle.
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Tzv. Stará prelatura pri kostele sv. Mikuláše, rodný dum spisovatele Franze Kafky (nar. 1883). Prelatura benediktinského kláštera c.p. 27/I ve své vrcholne barokní podobe z první ctvrtiny 18. století byla po zrušení kláštera v roce 1787 využívána k ruzným úcelum. Stará prelatura vystupovala o neco více než dnes do ulice U Radnice. Vlevo pruhled do tehdejší Úzké ulice.