VILLA STAR IN PRAGUE

• Authors: Jan Bažant
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article addresses specific decorative motives of the Villa Star (1555 -1558) in the Liboc suburb of Prague, an Italianate villa built together with the Royal Summerhouse known under the name of Queen Anne in the garden of the Prague Castle (1537 -1563) to support the imperial candidature of the Bohemian and Hungarian King, Ferdinand I Habsburg. From 1556 to1560 the ceilings of ground floor were provided with rich stucco decoration, after the fashion of the Caesar Augustus - motives from Vergilius' Aeneid - praising Ferdinand I as an eirenical emperor, bringing a new Golden Age to the world.

Keywords

EN

DECORATIVE MOTIVES; FERDINAND I HABSBURG; IMPERIAL CANDIDATURE; ITALIANATE VILLA; VERGILIUS' AENEID

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-72
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Bažant

• Jan Bazant, Kabinet pro klasicka studia Filosofickeho ustavu Akademie ved Ceske republiky, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA056318