Chapel of St. Ludmila by Vaclav Jansa - Prague, Czech Republic
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N 50° 05.256 E 014° 25.402
33U E 458749 N 5548530
Bývalá kaple sv. Ludmily // A former Chapel of St. Ludmila
Waymark Code: WMTXY1
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/21/2017
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The painting depicts a former Chapel of St. Ludmila beside south-east side of The Church of Our Lady before Týn.
One of the few significant changes apparent on the outer circumference of the Church of Our Lady before Tyn, carried out at the end of the 19th century. Up to 1886 in these places was a row of outbuildings. The demolition of the chapel. Ludmila was decided in 1892.
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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Jednou z mála výrazných zmen patrných na vnejším obvodu kostela Panny Marie pred Týnem, uskutecnených na konci 19 století, byla úprava okolí. Až do roku 1886 se v techto místech nacházela rada prístavku, o zborení kaple sv. Ludmily (napravo od vežovitého prístavku - sakristie s depozitárem), bylo rozhodnuto v roce 1892. V popredí ruina domu U Hrebenu, U Hrebene ci U Zlatého hrebene c.p. 600/I v Celetné ulici, který byl zboren již v roce 1882, protože svým rozsahem bránil plánovanému zavedení konky do techto míst. Pohled zachycený Jansou byl zrejme vytvoren podle fotografie a antedatován. Svedcí proto nejen zjevne prepisované datum na obraze, ale napr. i srovnání se zcela shodným záberem na obraze Jana Minaríka.