Wall Painting and Stuccowork of Knight's Hall of Nelahozeves Chateau

1 RESUMÉ My bachelor study focuses on the wall paintings and stucco decoration in the Knight's Hall of Nelahozeves castle. I endeavor after compact summarization of available origins. My bachelor study targets on the stucco reliefs. Because of the lack of the origins I only describe the paintings and put them into connection with the main stucco motives. The chapter dedicated to the stucco decoration is divided into ten smaller units. I put the main emphasis on figurative motives. Five Nelahozeves stucco spaces in the Hall's vault are thematically similar to the same stuccos at pleasure castle Hvezda in Prague. Their conformity is not accidental. Stuccos in representative Hall of Nelahozeves are directly educed from superior ones processing at Hvezda. When I looked for their samples, I study the literature pointed to Prague's pleasure house. I focus on figurative stucco reliefs of the Hall's vault from the point of searching their art and lateral patterns. The basic inspiration source of motives was history processing from Tito Livio. I shortly adumbrate mythological frame of each heroic fact because of ancient conception of historiography. We can find the founder of Roman nation, Aene, running from burning Troja, Curtio falling into depth, Kimon saved by Peron, Mucio Scaevola putting his hand into fire and..