Marian image of Beata type in a wide local, time and content view.

Keywords Beata, Madonnas of svatovítský type, Marian images, Madonnas of 15th century, Czech medieval madonnas, Cetral European painting of 14th century, Cetral European painting of 15th century, Svatovítská madona, Replication of images Abstract Even though the preserved collection of a medieval painting is just a fragment of its former amount, we can still observe specific iconographical types, obviously more influential than others. Therefore the question arises, what are the reasons leading to a significant preference of particular types against others and what intention these images were multiplied with? Which role could the religious, iconographical, historical or artistic aspects contained in particular artwork play? One of the most significant example of this multiplication in bohemian medieval painting is iconografical type called Beata, witch - together with its contemporary and similarly extended type Regina -, represent the core of marian images of the whole 15th and the beginning of the 16th century. This thesis aims to present the Beata type in a broad view in both time and thematic sense and attempts to elucidate some conditions of the pictorial multiplication. The key instrument would be comparative analysis of a typological, iconographical and formal aspects, combined with a reflection of..