The article presents evaluation of the recent knowledge on the early medieval beads collection from the Prague Castle, considering their typology and the research future.
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Ten glass tesserae were found during the archaeological excavations in the St. Anne Chapel in 1959. The tesserae are dated into Gothic period (between the middle of the 14th cent. and the year 1541). The glass is of better quality than glass of the mosaic of Last Judgement on the St. Guy’s Cathedral dated to the 1370 and 1371 years.
The study is aimed at demonstration that palaces of ancient Roman emperors might have been the main source of Josip Plecnik’s imagination when remodelling Prague Castle (from 1920) for T. G. Masaryk, the first president of the Czechoslovak Republic. Plecnik revived (or tried to revive) many of its features – porticoed façade, basilican hall, cryptoportico, vestibule in the form of a rotunda, and park shaped like a hippodrome. He did not hesitate to modify traditional forms in order to revive them, but he always respected tradition. His innovations were bold, but they never countered the spirit of ancient Greek and Roman architectural tradition.
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