Church of Our Lady before Tyn by Vaclav Jansa - Prague, Czech Republic - Paintings Then and Now on Waymarking.com

The Church of Mother of God before Týn, often translated as Church of Our Lady before Týn, is a dominant feature of the Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic, and has been the main church of this part of the city since the 14th century. The church's towers are 80 m high and topped by four small spires.

Originally this Romanesque and later early Gothic style church was radically reconstructed in the last third of 14th century and at the beginning of 15th century. The upper part of the towers and the distinctive forefront gable between these towers are decorated with taper squares and crowned by a Gothic cross made of stone and were completed as late as the second half of 15th and the beginning of 16th century. The towers height, from which the south tower is obviously wider, is 80 m. Therefore the towers of Týnský Cathedral are the second tallest in Prague after the St. Nicholas church towers.

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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Pohled na chrám Panny Marie pred Týnem s cástí paláce Goltz-Kinských a tzv. Týnskou školou. V popredí lešení sovisející pravdepodobne se stavbou pomníku M. Jana Husa, která byla zahájena v roce 1913, k odhalení pomníku došlo 5. cervence 1915. Jeho autorem byl sochar Ladislav Šaloun, architektem Antonín Pfeifer. Pomník byl zamýšlen jako ideový protipól mariánského sousoší. Vlevo cást paláce Goltz-Kinských c.p. 606, který byl puvodne postaven jako rane stredoveký, pozdeji renesancne upravený a do soucasné pozdne barokní podoby prestavený v letech 1755-1765, nejspíše podle projektu Anselma Luraga, se socharskou výzdobou od Františka Platzera.

Website of painting. Exact URL of painting is required: [Web Link] Artist: Václav Jansa Date of Painting: 01/01/1913 Date of Your Photograph: 01/13/2017 Medium of Painting: watercolour

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