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2014
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vol. 47
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issue 1
70 – 83
EN
The Jasov monastery library, which originally contained more than 80,000 volumes, represents the only partially preserved baroque monument of this type today in Slovakia. Although the current library furnishings including racks and metal gallery frames dates back to the end of the 19th century, the original library hall with vault fresco paintings, completed in 1776 by the painter Johann Lucas Kracker (1719-1779), has been preserved. The vault fresco of the monastic library was completed on July 2, 1776, ten years after the sanctification of the Premonstratensian Church of St. John the Baptist. The fundamental iconographic framework of the Jasov library frescoes was based on the vault frescoes of the main hall (Prunksaal) of the imperial library in Vienna (Hofbibliothek) realized in the years 1726-1730 by Daniel Gran (1694-1757), following the libretto by Conrad Adolph von Albrecht, and celebrates mainly Andreas Anton Sauberer, the first abbot of Jasov.
EN
Concentration of the written and pictorial sources on the Reutter family of Banská Štiavnica forms the material part of the study, which aims not only at critical analysis, but also at an effort to reconstruct the culture and experience of a representative Central European individual in the late 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. The text also attempts to grasp the methodological possibilities for interpreting historical sources reflecting the cultural experience of the urban Lutheran elites in the mining towns of central Slovakia, especially with regard for models of patronage, and not only in the field of fine art and craft, but also of early modern education and literature. The study also tries to answer the question of whether the historiography of art offers a viable and open way to interpret the form and meaning of contemporary culture for a specific person from a particular social group, if we work with textual sources or only with a limited sample of surviving works coming mainly from artistic crafts rather than high art.
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