Bartolomejska ulice by Vaclav Jansa - Prague, Czech Republic
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N 50° 04.984 E 014° 25.060
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Bartolomejska ulice // Bartolomejska Street
Waymark Code: WMTQ69
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 12/28/2016
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Bartolomejská street was names according to the church of St Bartholomew. The church of St Bartholomew [CZ: Kostel svatého Bartolomeje] was a High Baroque building constructed between 1726 and 1731 as part of a Jesuit college and designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. After the Jesuit Order was abolished in 1773, the church was closed but was later consecrated for the Order of the Grey Sisters. The façade facing the courtyard features rich sculptural decorated with sculptures and on the vaults in its interiors there are frescoes by Václav Vavrinec Reiner.
When it comes to more recent history, Bartolomejská has more sinister associations for Czechs. During the Communist era, it was the headquarters of the Secret Police (Státní bezpecnost or StB), housed in the tall, grey building on the south side of the street. Interrogations were held there and Bartolomejská became synonymous with terror and denial of human rights.
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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Vlevo ulicní fasáda rozsáhlého objektu Konviktu c.p. 291/1, puvodne stredovekého komplexu budov, jezuity zceleného v 17. století. Celý komplex byl posléze znovu barokne upraven a po zrušení rádu klasicistne prestaven a rozdelen na menší objekty. Dále skrytý barokní objekt c.p 309/I U Starých šedivých ci U Kasíru, mající puvod v rane stredoveké dvorcové zástavbe, klasicistne upravený v letech 1842-1843. Viditelne se zmenila pravá strana obrazu. Zprava objekty náležející rozsáhlému c.p. 348/I U Božího roucha ci U Boží sukne. Proti malíri dum c.p. 356/I, tzv. Purkrabský pivovar, zrejme s románskými a gotickými základy v majetku purkrabství Pražského hradu se objekt nacházel od roku 1641 do 19. století. Jako autor drobných úprav tohoto domu bývá predpokládán Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer. Pri radikální prestavbe roku 1848 byla budova zvýšena o dve patra a získala klasicistní fasádu. Malír zachytil vlevo vedle tohoto domu ješte cást puvodního c.p. 355 v jeho klasicistní podobe.