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Maulbertsch pinxit

Maulbertsch pinxit. Commissions of Franz Anton Maulbertsch in Moravia and Bohemia

Exhibition of works by Franz Anton Maulbertsch at the Kroměříž Castle

Michaela Šeferisová Loudová

This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724–1796), one of the most original artists and fresco painters of the second half of the 18th century in Central Europe.

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About the Frescoes and under the Frescoes

The BCPCE 2023 Annual Meeting in Bratislava

This year’s meeting of the Research Group for Baroque Ceiling Painting in Central Europe (BCPCE) took place on 13–15 October 2023 in Bratislava. Our kind hostess was Mgr. & Mgr. Art. Barbara Hodásová, Ph.D., Head of the Institute of Art History, Art Research Centre od the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and deserves the warm thanks of all the participating colleagues for the excellently organized meeting.

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Dal Trentino alla Boemia

Pietro Delpero, Dal Trentino alla Boemia. Francesco Marchetti un pittore nella Mitteleuropa del Seicento [From Trentino to Bohemia. Francesco Marchetti a Painter in Central Europe in the Seventeenth Century]

The recent book by Pietro Delpero aims to reconstruct the biography and the professional activity of the painter Francesco Marchetti (1641–1698), born of a noble family in Trentino. He was a painter at the court of Prince-Bishop Sigismondo Alfonso Thun, but broadly appreciated by the nobility in Trentino, Veneto, Austria and Bohemia, in addition to being the portraitist of Papal Legates and Teutonic Knights.

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Tales in Heaven

The project Tales in Heaven: Ceiling painting in Lisbon`s palace architecture (18th and 19th centuries)

Sofia Braga (Institute of History of Art, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)

Tales in Heaven: Ceiling painting in Lisbon’s palace architecture (18th and 19th centuries) is a work in progress. This aims to study the painted ceilings of Lisbon’s palace architecture from the 18th and 19th centuries, a heritage of great artistic significance both from an aesthetic and from a conceptual perspective. The resulting body of knowledge will enable the identification of the most popular aesthetic trends and the artists who contributed to them, as well as the social, economic and political codes inherent to this art form. This project is being developed in the group “Lisbon Studies” of the Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

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Maulbertsch and Adolph von Freenthal: „Kalkmalerei in Fresko“ and „quadri riportati“

Excursions to Mikulov and Kroměříž, April 28-29, 2022

by: Michaela Šeferisová Loudová
photos: Martin Mádl

Two important works of the Baroque painting in Moravia located in Mikulov (Nikolsburg) and in Kroměříž (Kremsier) are under restoration. The ceiling paintings depicting scenes from the St John the Baptist legend in the church of the Piarists in Mikulov were created by Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724–1796) around 1757.

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Baroque Ceiling Painting: Theory and Praxis

Call for Papers

Baroque Ceiling Painting: Theory & Praxis

Czech Republic, Litomyšl, October 20–22, 2022

The Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno and the Studio of Wall Painting Restoration of the Faculty of Restoration, University of Pardubice, are preparing an international scientific Conference devoted to the problems of art theory and practice in the field of wall and ceiling painting of the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. The Conference is organized within the frame of the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Research Group for Baroque Ceiling Painting in Central Europe (BCPCE), with the support of the Czech Academy of Sciences, program Strategy AV21: Cultural Heritage as Part of European and Global Discourse.

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BCPCE against Putin’s Aggression in Ukraine

Under the impression of a disturbing report and based on unfortunate historical experience, The Research Group for Baroque Ceiling Painting in Central Europe, an association of experts and professional institutions from Europe and the United States, dedicated to the study of monumental painting of the early modern period, strongly condemns the unjustifiable military aggression of the Putin regime and its army against Ukraine, during which civilians, including women and children, are being murdered and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have already been forced to flee their homes. We oppose the unacceptable invasion of the territory of a free state, which is a flagrant violation of international law and a drastic violation of basic human rights.  Last but not least, we condemn this aggression by Putin’s Russia as a real and already implemented threat to the values of the world’s cultural heritage, to which Ukrainian cultural property undoubtedly belongs. We call for a halt to Russia’s barbaric war campaign and for the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine!

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The Second Biennale of the Centre for Early Modern Studies – Program

His Artibus: An author, Her/His Environment and Artwork. Possibilities of Artists’ Biographies in the Present Day

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to the Second Biennale of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Art History, which takes place on the 27th–28th May 2021.

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Himmlische Botschaften

Botschaften in bürgerlichen Welten –
Barocke Deckenmalerei in Bürgerhäusern

Augsburg, 6. und 7. Mai 2021 in Augsburg

Liebe Mitglieder und Freunde der BCPCE,

anbei findet Ihr den Flyer zur Tagung Himmlische Botschaften in bürgerlichen Welten – Barocke Deckenmalerei in Bürgerhäusern am 6. und 7. Mai 2021 in Augsburg. Diese kann aufgrund der Einschränkungen durch die Coronapandemie nun auch ein Jahr später leider doch nur virtuell abgehalten werden.

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From a Finding to Interpretation

Zuzana Macurová – Tomáš Valeš (edd.), From a Finding to Interpretation: Connoisseurship, Collecting and Iconography of Early Modern Art, Brno 2019

by Radka Nokkala Miltová

This publication consists of essays by art historians from the Czech Republic and other countries (four contributors are members of the BCPCE). The volume is thematically focused on connoisseurship, collecting and iconography of early modern art. Chapters of the book are characterized by new findings and by innovative applications of novel methodological approaches resulting into innovative interpretations. The intention of the book is to honour 70th anniversary of professor Lubomír Slavíček, who as one of the leading Czech art historians, specializes – although by no means exclusively – on early modern art.  

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Baroque Ceiling Painting in Hungary II

János Jernyei Kiss (ed.), Barokk freskófestészet Magyarországon II. kötet – Baranya, Somogy, Tolna és Zala megye [Baroque Ceiling Painting in Hungary, Vol. II. – Baranya, Somogy, Tolna and Zala Counties], Budapest 2020, 560 pp., ISBN: 9786150092843

Following the first volume of the corpus of Baroque ceiling painting in Hungary, the present handbook, published in 2020, focuses on fifty-one murals located in the Southern Transdanubian counties of present-day Hungary. A part of the four-volume corpus edited by János Jernyei Kiss and published by the Hungarian Academy of Arts in collaboration with the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Centre, this lavishly illustrated large-format book presents new research by fifteen authors on several aspects of monumental mural decoration during the 18th century in Hungary.

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The Second Biennale of the Centre for Early Modern Studies – CFP

His Artibus: An author, Her/His Environment and Artwork. Possibilities of Artists’ Biographies in the Present Day

The Second Biennale of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Masaryk University, Department of Art History, planned for May 6th –7th 2020, will take place in the new term May 27th –28th  2021.

The Biennale is currently planned as an on-line meeting. If the epidemiological situation allows (and we firmly believe, it will), we are ready to transfer the conference from the virtual into the real space of the Masaryk University in Brno. For the foreign colleagues and those who cannot arrive to Brno the video-conferencing will remain at the disposal.

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Shadow Casting in the Projection of Baroque Ceiling Paintings

Shadow Casting in the Projection
of Baroque Ceiling Paintings

(Workshop, Brno, October 8, 2020)

by: Michaela Šeferisová Loudová and Martin Mádl
photos: Martin Mádl and Tadeáš Kadlec

On October 8, the Seminar of Art History, Masaryk University in Brno, and the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the restorer Michaela Rychlá Navrátilová and the architect Daniela Vlková, and with the students of art history of the Masaryk and the Charles Universities have organized a joint workshop in Brno.

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The Research Group for Baroque Ceiling Painting in Central Europe