Karel Stejskal

Die Wandzyklen des Kaisers Karls IV. Bemerkungen zu Nuedatierungen und Rekonstruktionen der im Auftrag Karls IV. gemalten Wandzyklen

The author devotes the introduction of this in-depth study to the activities of the master of the Emmaus Cycle at Karlstein and in the cloister of the Slavonic Emmaus Monastery in Prague. Stejskal dates the beginning of work on the decoration of the cloister to 1365 and shows that the remaining scenes in the Chapel of the Virgin Mary at Karlstein could not have been created prior to 1354. In addition, he introduces the results of his study of the manuscript of the Austrian National Library in Vienna (Cod. 8330), from the years 1571 to 1572, containing miniatures of Matheus Ornys, considered to be copies of the destroyed Karlstein pedigree. This article also devotes some attention to the series of destroyed panel paintings, from what is today the Vladislav Hall of the Prague Castle and the Přemysl Cycle at Vyšehrad, which Charles IV had painted around 1360. The last part of the article discusses the lost decoration of Charles's castle Tangermünde in Branibor.

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