Eine unbekannte Handschrift mit einer Porträtgalerie der Wettiner
Unknown manuscript in the Wettin portrait gallery
Author(s): Kamil BoldanSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, 16th Century
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Masarykův ústav
Keywords: renaissance manuscripts ; renaissance bookbindings ; ancestral portrait gallery ; gallery of the House of Wettin ; Dresden castle ; cistercian monastery in Osek
Summary/Abstract: The paper draws attention to an almost unknown manuscript once held in the Cistercian Monastery library at Osek and kept since 1970 in the Plzeň Municipal Archive. It contains full-page copies of the Wettin gallery portraits commissioned by the end of the 1580s by Christian I of Saxony from court painter Heinrich Göding. The luxurious binding of the manuscripts shows that it was written at the same time as that in the portrait gallery directly for Christian I. The manuscript has an inestimable value nowadays because original canvases painted by Göding are unaccounted for since the end of World War Two.
Journal: Studie o rukopisech
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 47
- Page Range: 49-69
- Page Count: 21
- Language: German
