Prodlouzena Platnerska ulice by Vaclav Jansa - Prague, Czech Republic
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Prodlouzena Platnerska ulice by Vaclav Jansa // // Platnerska Street, west part, beside Vltava River
Waymark Code: WMTRB1
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/02/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member lumbricus
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The Platnerska Street is parallel to the Karlova Street which leads to the Charles Bridge.

The site substantially changed, just a tower of the Cathedral of St. Vitus (at backgroud) are still in place.

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The author of this painting is Václav Jansa. You can find this painting in book 'Starou Prahou Václava Jansy' (visit link) .

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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Cást ulice Platnérské za križovatkou s ulicí Križovnickou. Vpravo dum c.p. 84/I U Cerného kozla ci U Cerného berana s renesancními štíty a v pozadí dodnes stojící dum c.p. 85/I Na Prádle ci Na Muráni. Dum vznikl ve 30. letech 18. století na míste, kde bývalo ve 14. století smetište, poté skladište, ohrada s dreveným domkem. Soucasná podoba jižního krídla je poznamenaná vícerými úpravami z doby pred a tesne po polovine 19. století. Vlevo budovy kláštera križovníku s cervenou hvezdou, zborené v roce 1909. V pruhledu pres Vltavu vidíme veže chrámu sv. Víta na Pražském hrade.
Objekt c.p. 84/1 byl v roce 1935 zboren. Pri domé c.p. 5c c. . roce ’935 zrušen dvur s prízemní zástavbou na východní Strane. Na míste budov kláštera križovníku s cervenou hvezdou zborených v roce 1909, byly postaveny v letech 1909-1912 nové neobarokní a secesní domy podle plánu architekta novostavba hotelu Four Seasons. realizovaná v lotech 1998 - 2000.
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Artist: Václav Jansa

Date of Painting: 01/01/1897

Date of Your Photograph: 12/30/2016

Medium of Painting: watercolour

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