Transfiguration of the Lord - Eiselt family tomb at Vysehrad Cemetery (Prague, Czechia)
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Remarkable mosaic depicting the Transfiguration of the Lord, work of Viktor Foerster, decorates the Eiselt family tomb loctaed in the 14th arcade in the Czech national burial ground - Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague.
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/17/2020
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Remarkable mosaic depicting the Transfiguration of the Lord, work of Viktor Foerster, decorates the Eiselt family tomb loctaed in the 14th arcade in the Czech national burial ground - Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague.
The beautiful large mosaic is work of famous Czech artist Viktor Foerster made acccording to the painting by Raffael Santi in 1908.
The mosaic set on the wall of the arcade forms the most important part of the decoration of the tomb ordered by Jan Bohumil Eiselt, professor of internal medicine at Charles University. Eiselt, buried in tomb in 1908, communicated during his lifetime about tomb decoration with Victor Foerster. Artist made first and apparently quite different proposal of the mosaic design in 1904. However, struggled with the negative attitude of the canon of the Vyšehrad Chapter Mikuláš Karlach, who significantly contributed to the expansion of the original Vyšehrad cemetery and who had to approve the composition. The debate resulted in the same year in the compromise of the decoration of the tomb, whose central motif is the figure of Jesus Christ, adapted to the painting of the Transfiguration of the Lord by Raffael Santi (Raphael). Regardless of Raffael's undeniable inspiration, the mosaic shows another contemporary influence on Foerster's work - the Beuron art school.