Historicism in Prague sacral architecture around the year 1600

(in English): This essay tries to, on numerous selected examples, introducted from a wider European context, through specific tasks of Czech architecture to a list of building activity in Prague, general and specific features of religious buildings of the early modern period, depict the overall image and grasp the character of period architectural production, tied with displays of historicism. Historisms follow directly the late Gothic, from which these integrally emerge, and then appear continuously, as a specific stylish modus, represented chiefly by conserved Gothic forms in premises with liturgical function, parallelly to generally prevalent style (Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque), up to the 18th century. Therefore, yet a moment and a manner of reception of the Reneaissance behind the Alps, with which relates affirmation of character of sacred architecture is observed. Further are discussed particular potentialities of their ideological substantiation and artistic conception. Finally an attempt is made to elucidate their relation with Mannerism, in which context quantitative and qualitative rise of historicism occured, especially the gothicizing. Domestic buildings, observed circa from the half of 16th ct. to the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, are divided in three groups representing basic..