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MANNERS, TRADITIONS, SLOVAKIA FOLKLORE
The Slovak folk calendar is full of customs and rituals that go back to the ancient Slavic magic. Most of them have absorbed Christianity. Because we come from the same circle of Christian culture, most of Slovak customs …
Slovak literature
The oldest linguistic monuments in Slovakia come from the Great Moravian times. Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius, invited to the lands of Western Slavs by prince Rościsław in 853 r., they created the first Slavic letter and translated the Gospel into the Old Church Slavonic language, who was standing …
Theater in Slovakia
The earliest Slavic performances in today's Slovakia, related to religious rituals, supposedly took place during the times of the Great Moravian Reich, survived in folk traditions and infiltrated into Christian rituals. Their prevalence is evidenced by the fact, that the synod of Esztergom in XII …
Music in Slovakia
W IX w. together with Christianity, the Byzantine and Latin liturgical chants penetrated the Slavic lands, the latter, in the form of chorales, they became popular mainly thanks to the Benedictine monasteries. The folk music of the Games was developing at the same time (local variety …
Sculpture and painting in Slovakia
The concept of "Slovak art” is not the same as the term "art in the area of today's Slovakia”, artistic activity flourished here long before the establishment of the Slovak state, and even before the Slavs came. National art began to emerge in parallel …
Oskar Kokoschka and others – Vienna – Belweder
Works by Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) gathered in the permanent exhibition in the last two rooms come mainly from the first ten years of their stay in Vienna, creative and fertile years. After 1915 r. Kokoschka came back here enough …
Egon Schiele – Vienna – Belweder
Klimt actively supported younger artists, np. Egona Schiele (1890-1918), to whom two more rooms are dedicated. He introduced them to his patrons, he exhibited their works at the exhibitions he organized, and even, as was the case …
Gustav Klimt – Vienna – Belweder
Works of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) are in the second room, next to the works of contemporary artists: Kolo Mosera, Carla Molla i Maxa Kurzweila. Ethereal image, a woman in the Portrait of Sonja Knips, as if absent by thoughts (1898) this first …
Velazquez, Belotto i Canaletto – Art History Museum – Vienna
In the room 9 i 10 you can get acquainted with the canvases of the Spaniards. Portrait of Don Carlos by Alonso Sanchez Coello depicts the mentally and physically handicapped son Philip II, who was imprisoned by …
Raphael, Bronzino i Caravaggio – Art History Museum – Vienna
Collections of the hall 3 they range from representatives of northern Italy to the founders of the mannerist school of Emilia. The museum's most erotic work is that of Jupiter and Io. It came from the brush of Antonio Correggio (ok. 1489-1534), Io …