PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mudra, Aleš
TI  - Unknown remains of the main altar of the collegiate church in Vyšehrad from around 1600?
DP  - 2022 Jun 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 116--121
VI  - 38
IP  - 1
AID - 10.56112/sp.2022.1.05
IS  - 02316056
AB  - In 2021, the Prague City Museum acquired excellent monumental wood carvings of St. Peter and Paul of Prague origin from the turn of the 17th century. Their style has no direct comparison in Bohemia; the closest workshops capable of creating such work operated in southern Germany. In Prague at that time, there were not many institutions that could afford such a spectacular commission, nor discerning customers with the range of knowledge exceeding the local horizon. Therefore, it is possible to connect the sculptures with Vyšehrad, where at the time of the reconstruction of the collegiate church of St. Peter and Paul the initiative of the chapter's superiors met with the support of leading figures of the imperial court. The iconography of the sculptures corresponds to the high altar consecrated in 1599; they are also mentioned in the 19th century inventories from the period before the neo-Gothic "cleansing" of the church.