Publication details
Ornament v kachlovém reliéfu středověkého a raně novověkého Brna
| Title in English | Ornamentation in Tile Reliefs from Medieval and Early Modern-Age Brno |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Ornament - oděv - šperk. Archaické projevy materiální kultury. Etnologické studie 5. |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | stove tiles; relief; ornament; Middle Ages; early modern age |
| Description | The era of tiled stoves in Brno becomes interesting, in terms of ornamentation, immediately after the mid-15th century, under the influence of Buda workshops. The mass spread of tiled stoves, with the frequent use of domestic motifs on the tiles, involved all social strata. Relief decoration did not dictate the price of expensive tile stoves; rather, high prices were charged for multicoloured (majolica) glazing. The second wave of imported ornamentation probably started before the mid-16th century. It was associated with the Anabaptists and endured until the end of their Moravian activities, in the early 1620's. These products spawned a large number of domestic imitations for all the social strata. This contribution is a cross-section of tile reliefs with purely ornamental subjects from the environment of the medieval and early modern-age royal city. It divides the material into two large groups, vegetal and geometrical, with a number of sub-categories based upon specific patterns. |
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