When I first stood before the fourth painting of the Slav Epic, „Tsar Simeon of Bulgaria – Dawn of Slavic Literature,“ I had the feeling that I was standing before ...
Slovanská epopej
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Alfons Mucha's Slav Epic – Third Picture: Introduction of Slavic Liturgy in Great Moravia – Praise God in Your Native Language
From Editorial staffImage three: praise God in your native language. In my opinion, the crucial moment of the Slavs was depicted by this third image. The turning point in the destiny of the Slavic peoples. ...
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When the gods war - salvation in art Image two: The second painting, overflowing with many motifs, has always struck me personally as an impressive scene ...
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Alfons Mucha's Slav Epic – first painting: Between the cruel sword and the Gothic sword – the birth of Slavdom from swamps and blood
From Editorial staffThe first canvas of Alfons Mucha's Slav Epic, entitled Between Kuran Cruelty and the Gothic Sword, is a dark prologue to the entire monumental cycle. Before ...
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PRAGUE - President Petr Pavel has tasked ANO chair Andrej Babiš with negotiating the formation of a new government. He took this step after a series of consultations ...
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I took the liberty of bringing a little of our country's national cultural wealth to our news website. To great success, we are repeating the Alfons Mucha series: ...
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Four Periods of Slavonicity in Four Colours The last picture summarises the history of the Slavs and the whole Slavonic epic, divided into four colours. On the right ...
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The Vatican of the Orthodox Mont Athos is the easternmost and largest of the three promontories of the Chalkidiki peninsula in the Aegean Sea, with Mount Athos 47 km long and ...
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The Slavic Revival After the end of the Thirty Years' War, according to Alfons Mucha, the Czech nation faced a cruel time. Recatholization, centralization and Germanization culminated in the 18th century ...
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The way of acting, straightforwardness and principle of Jiří of Poděbrady (1458-1471) - the king of both people, is depicted by Alfons Mucha in one of the episodes of his reign. Pope Pius ...