Inventory of the Artistic and Cultural Heritage of the Administrative District of Český Krumlov

Inventory of the Artistic and Cultural Heritage of the Administrative District of Český Krumlov

Jana Marešová (ed.)

The Artefactum publishing house is publishing, as part of the Fontes historium artium series, the fifth volume of the Inventory of the Artistic and Cultural Heritage in the Kingdom of Bohemia. This volume is devoted to heritage sites in the town of Český Krumlov. It was originally prepared for publication, as the second volume of the Inventory of the Artistic and Cultural Heritage of the Český Krumlov District, by the experienced pair of authors František Mareš and Jan Sedláček (Třeboňsko, 1910; Prachaticko, 1913). The critical edition of the manuscript itself is preceded by an introductory study devoted to the relatively long and complicated history of this volume. Its beginnings go back as far as 1898 and the manuscript ended up with Zdeněk Wirth in 1934. Thanks to his care, however, it was preserved in his estate, which passed into the hands of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, in 1961.
In traditional manner, the introductory study is supplemented by brief profiles of the two original authors, a formal and textual analysis, notes on the editing of the manuscript, and a terminological glossary.
This critical edition of the Inventory is accompanied by extensive contemporary pictorial documentation, which had been prepared especially for the Inventory by the architect Jan Sedláček and the leading South Bohemian photographic studios of Josef Seidel and Josef Wolf.

The book is published in a bilingual, Czech-German version.
First edition, Czech/German, 1031 p., black and white illustrations, index of names and places, Prague 2017
ISBN 978-80-86890-06-7