Karel Škréta Šotnovoský

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Karel Škréta Šotnovoský

Bohemian painter

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Western painting
Central Europe
In Karel Škréta Šotnovoský, Bohemia possessed a painter of significant stature; his somber portraits and religious scenes are filled with a deeply serious mystical fervor. The frescoes by Johann Michael Rottmayr in the castle of Vranov in Moravia (1695) and in Breslau (now Wrocław; 1704–06) constitute…
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In Karel Škréta Šotnovoský, Bohemia possessed a painter of significant stature; his somber portraits and religious scenes are filled with a deeply serious mystical fervor. The frescoes by Johann Michael Rottmayr in the castle of Vranov in Moravia (1695) and in Breslau (now Wrocław; 1704–06) constitute…
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