Exhibition in Prague castle - Charles IV. - Emperor by the Grace of God
Would you like to learn about the most significant and world famous monarch from the Czech history?
Then come to Prague this Spring and visit with us unique exhibitions in Prague castle and learn about this famous monarch - Charles IV - Emperor by the Grace of God!
After its success in Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York which hosted this exhibition from 19th September 2005 till 3rd January 2006, the exhibition of Charles IV - Emperor by the Grace of God is moving to Prague castle. It is unique exhibition that is trying for the first time in modern history to gather most precious works of art and relics of Prague/Czech origin scattered throughout all sorts of American and European collections.
Visitiors of Prague castle could see this exhibition (full title of this exhibition is Charles IV - Emperor by the Grace of God / Culture and art in the reign of the last of the Luxemburgs 1347-1437)
The exhibition makes accessible fourth-dimensional set of artworks connected with the Luxemburgs. More than 220 exhibits borrowed from over 90 galleries, museums and private collections from 15 countries of the world will be on show.
This joint project of the Prague Castle Administration and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York is the most important cultural and social venture of 2006. Moreover, Prague is to be the only European city in which the exhibition is shown.
This exhibition, revealing a major chapter in the world's cultural heritage also forms a unique opportunity to learn about the artistic legacy of a European dynasty whose name will forever be linked to Prague and Bohemia. There will be on view most precious artistic relics from Czech and Moravian institutions, from eminent world´s collection institutions and also from private collectors. The exhibition will be accompanied by children´s program and interesting original program consisting of further exhibitions arranged by the Prague Castle Administration, The National Museum, The National Library, The National Gallery, The Charles University, The Jewish Museum, The National Archive and by The Archive of Capital City of Prague and completed by events on castles (Karlštejn Castle, Křivoklát and Točník). Furthemore the program offers theatre performances, concerts, commentary excursions and folk-plays according to dramaturgy of particular institutions and towns.
In the second half of the 14th century, Prague became a major European centre for politics, commerce and art. Owing to the generous sponsorship of the last of the Luxemburgs, the traditional seat of the Bohemian kings was transformed, nearly overnight, into a vivid city, a meeting place of different cultures and religions. Charles IV turned Prague into the proud residence of the continent's most powerful ruler - the Holy Roman Emperor, a city with spiritual wealth to match even that of the Eternal City of Rome.
Prague's imperial court was a meeting place for the finest painters, sculptors, goldsmiths and architects celebrating their rulers in art and enhancing the glory of the Holy Roman Empire and Kingdom of Bohemia. The art of Imperial Prague became a phenomenon that reverberated throughout many of Europe's royal and ecclesiastical courts, culminating under the reign of Charles' sons, Wenceslas IV and Sigismund, when a unique European artistic style - the International Gothic - was born.
