1 / 7

St. Wenceslaus and his horse

St. Wenceslaus and his horse. The statue is a monument of:. St. Wenceslaus (Václav) on his horse - He was the duke of Bohemia from 921 till 935 and was very important for Christianity in Bohemia. He is the main patron saint of the Czech state.

cadence-fidel
Download Presentation

St. Wenceslaus and his horse

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. St. Wenceslaus and his horse

  2. The statue is a monument of: • St. Wenceslaus (Václav) on his horse - He was the duke of Bohemia from 921 till 935 and was very important for Christianity in Bohemia. He is the main patron saint of the Czech state. • St. Ludmila – She was the grandmother of Wenceslaus, she supported him in his Christianity. • St. Procopius (Prokop) – He was a priest, a hermit and the founding abbot of the monastery of Sázava. • St. Adalbert (Vojtěch) – He was a bishop of Prague and a missionary, he was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians. He was later made the patron saint of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Prussia. • Agnes of Bohemia (Anežka Česká) – She was a medieval Bohemian princess who opted for a life of charity and piety.

  3. It stands on the St. Wenceslaus Square in Prague, the capital city of The Czech Republic

  4. Josef Václav Myslbek • He was the sculpturist of this monument. • He was the most important sculpturist of the turn of the 19th and 20th century. • He was a representative of monumental realism and founder of the New Czech Sculpturism. • He was assisted by the architect Alois Dryák and sculpturist Celda Klouček.

  5. It was revealed on 27th October 1935.Myslbek worked on it more then thirty years.

  6. It's made of bronze.

More Related