Ad unicum. Selected Works of Gothic, Renaissance and Mannerist Art from the National Heritage Institute, Czech Republic

Anglickojazyčná monografie je věnována uměleckým dílům od gotiky k manýrismu ve fondech Národního památkového ústavu. Navazuje a dílem čerpá z prvních česky vydaných svazků edice Ad unicum. S dílčími korekturami tak byla převzata úvodní studie věnovaná provenienčnímu výzkumu mobiliárních fondů hradů a zámků ve správě NPÚ. Tyto fondy byly svěřeny do správy instituce po II. světové válce, po jejich vyvlastnění na základě Benešových dekretů. Druhá část knihy představuje v osmdesáti monografických studiích vybrané malby a sochy od gotiky k manýrismu, přičemž důraz byl kladen na výběr uměleckých děl s přesahem k zahraničnímu bádání a představuje tak badatelskou bázi pro navazující výzkum (Tilman Riemenschneider, Hans Toman, Hans Brosamer, Benedetto Buglioni, Joachim Patinir, Jacob Seisenegger, Herri met de Bles, Mirabelo Cavalori, Bartholomeus Spranger, Jan Gossaert, Jacob Grimmer, Lucas, Gillis and Frederick van Valckenborch, Jacob de Backer, Dosso and Battista Dossi, Master IP, Gielis Panhedel etc.). Texty doplňuje bohatá fotodokumentace jednotlivých děl umožňující čtenáři detailní představu o jednotlivých malířských i sochařských dílech, zastoupena je i dokumentace archivní či z restaurátorských průzkumů. 

The publication deals with works of art from Gothic to Mannerism from the furnishings  collection in the castles and chateaux under the administration of the National Heritage Institute (NHI) in the Czech Republic. The opening study introduces the issue of provenance research.The core of the collection was entrusted to the nowadays NHI following its expropriation after the Second World War. The aim of this book is to present selected paintings, carvings and other objects, in eighty elaborate and in-depth entries, with the emphasis on works of art significant for international research (Master of Třeboň Alterpiece, Tilman Riemenschneider, Hans Toman, Hans Brosamer, Benedetto Buglioni, Joachim Patinir, Jacob Seisenegger, Herri met de Bles, Mirabelo Cavalori, Bartholomeus Spranger, Jan Gossaert, Jacob Grimmer, Lucas, Gillis and Frederick van Valckenborch, Jacob de Backer, Dosso and Battista Dossi, Master IP, Gielis Panhedel etc.). The essays are accompanied by superb photographs, creating a unique art-historical resource.

Contents:

Foreword / Naděžda Goryczková

A Never-Ending Journey / Šárka Radostová

I. The history of furnishings collections from the standpoint of provenance research in the Czech Republic / Šárka Radostová, Kristina Uhlíková

II. Catalogue

1. The Hluboká Adoration of the Lord (HL27815)
2. Madonna with St Bartholomew and St Margaret: the “Protivín Panel” (HL02911)
3. The Netolice Altarpiece (HL35842–HL35857)
4.  Altar Wings from Žleby – Resurrection and Ascension of the Lord, Descent of the Holy Spirit and Death of the Virgin Mary (ZL ZL07193b, ZL07193c)
5. The Madonna of Zlatá Koruna (29260/33–4182)
6. The Mystical Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria (RO00695)
7. Set of Saints from Zelená Hora (KL01298, KL01300, KL01299)
8. Wings of a Small Altar from Telč (T06468, T06469)
9. The Madonna of Řednice (KL01022)
10. The Madonna of Třeboň (HL27846)
11. Madonna from the Collection of Hermína Srbová (SV00118)
12. The Madonna of Jindřichův Hradec (JH00803)
13. St Barbara of Suchdol nad Lužnicí (SV00139)
14. St Sebastian from the Set of Saints from Zelená Hora (KL01297)
15. The Epitaph of Vicar Simon Rösch – Virgin and Child with St Catherine and St Bartholomew (HL36120)
16. Cruci'xion (HL36121)
17. Set of Four Church Fathers (SV00109, SV00110, SV00115, SV00116)
18. The Annunciation of the Virgin Mary of Jindřichův Hradec (JH01213)
19. St Anne with the Virgin Mary (RB00005, RB00112)
20. Altarpiece with the Adoration of the Magi (ZV00129, ZV00130)
21. The Martyrdom of the Apostles Cycle from Kájov (89327/33-2495)
22. Baptismal Font from Ronov with Figures of Adam and Eve and Saints (ZL11427)
23. Pair of Leaves from a Prayer Book from the Duchy of Cleves (ZL05591)
24. St John the Baptist (SV01369)
25. The Apparition of Christ to the Virgin Mary (KR00240)
26. St Paul (SV00106)
27. The Lamentation of Christ from Zvíkov (ZV00128)
28. Panels with the Church Fathers and Apostles – Fragments of the Altar of the Coronation of the Virgin of Koterov (SV01145, SV01190)
29. St Adalbert (?) from Zelená Hora (KL01399)
30. Altarpiece with the Coronation of the Virgin of Libochovice (SV01377–SV01379, LB02619/001–LB02619/005, NM H2–182.518)
31. Putative Portrait of Trčka of Lípa Couple (ZL5479)
32. The Companions of St Romulus of Fiesole (ZL11414, ZL11426)
33. The Meeting between St Ursula and Pope Cyriac before the Gates of Rome (SV01209)
34. Landscape with St Jerome (OP14834/001)
35. Madonna Enthroned with Saints (OP2524)
36. Reliefs with Subjects from Christ’s Childhood – Fragment of the Main Altar from the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Klatovy (KL00732–KL00735)
37. The Altar of St Anne with the Virgin and Child (CK14253)
38. St Peter and St Paul (CK14256, CK14255)
39. Madonna and St Dorothy – formerly St Mary Magdalene, St Barbara (CK14254)
40. The Adoration of God the Father – Relief from Netolice (KR00685)
41. The Madonna of Svatobor (KL00960)
42. Holy Family with St Catherine (S00534)
43. Panel Commemorating the Founders of the Hermitage in Heiligenberg (OP11805)
44. Portrait of the Family of Adam I of Hradec (CL00469, M00287, M00288)
45. Virgin and Child (KZ01674)
46. Portrait of a Young Man with a Pomegranate (OP02619/001)
47. Portrait of the Spanish Infante Philip II (JH05247)
48. Painted Tabletop Belonging to Anna von Kronberg (HT00758)
49. The Resurrection of Lazarus from the Epitaph of Georg Jaudt (HL04965)
50. The Twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple (OP02631)
51. Landscape with Scenes of the Passion (CK06589)
52. Portrait of Count Collaltino di Collalto I (JR13420a)
53. Portrait of Anna of Schleinitz (?) (T01107)
54. Portrait of a Sixty-Six-Year-Old Man (JH04797)
55. Posthumous Portrait of Emperor Ferdinand I (T01641a)
56. Panel Commemorating Jáchym of Hradec and Anna of Hradec and Rožmberk (JH01226)
57. Posthumous Portrait of Jáchym of Hradec (T01642)
58. The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (RO00692)
59. Portrait of Francesco I de’ Medici (OP14840)
60. Two Portraits of Hradec Couple (T01398)
61. The Adoration of the Magi (HT00244)
62. Madonna with Cherries (HL15299)
63. Portrait of Francesco I de’ Medici (CL00416)
64. The Epitaph of Jacob II of Windischgrätz and his Family (KL01336, KL01330, KL01324)
65. Two Paintings of Female Saints: St Margaret and St Catherine (?) (RO00707, RO00708)
66. The Žerotín Epitaph – Epitaph of Barbora of Bibrštejn (OP002621)
67. Archduke Matthias Taking the Waters (HN00823)
68. The Last Judgment (T01634)
69. The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (CL00490)  
70. The Judgment of Paris (CK06653)
71. St Jerome in the Wilderness (CK03334)
72. Two Portraits of Emperor Rudolph II (TR00701, KR00235)
73. The Return of the Golden Age under Virgo (CK06740)
74. Child Portrait of Dorota, Daughter of Adam II of Hradec (JH00594)
75. Set of Four Allegories of European Powers – Germania, Italia, Hispania, Francia (JR11148a)
76. The Children of the Planets Cycle (RO00679)
77. Madonna of the Animals after Albrecht Dürer (CL00484)
78. The Hohenzollern Family Tree (CK07354)
79.  Portrait of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (OP09001)
80. The Miraculous Preservation of Governors Vilém Slavata of Chlum and Jaroslav Bořita of Martinice at the Defenestration of Prague (T02721)

List of Illustrations

 Archival Collections

 Abbreviations

Bibliography  

Index of Places

 Index of Names

List of Permanent Exhibitions in Stately Homes and Objects Included in Them