An annotated translation: Natural Forms, in: Ethan Matt Kavaler, Renaissance Gothic. Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe 1470 - 1540. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012, pp. 199-229. (ISBN 978-0-300-16792-4)

(česky) Předkládaná bakalářská práce si klade za cíl přeložit část kapitoly Natural Forms z knihy kanadského profesora dějin umění Ethana Matta Kavalera s názvem Renaissance Gothic. Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe 1470 - 1540. Po části s překladem je přiložen komentář k překladu, v němž se autorka zamýšlí nad specifickými faktory, které měly vliv na genezi textu. Rovněž v něm analyzuje text z lexikálního a stylistického hlediska, určuje ho jako text esejistický a velmi kvalitní. Na základě analýzy charakterizuje překladatelské problémy, uvádí strategie jejich řešení a snaží se postihnout posuny, ke kterým v překladu došlo spolu s jejich příčinami. Konstatuje zejména vyšší míru explicitnosti, variability výrazových prostředků a částečně intenzifikaci ve shodě se stanoveným cílem přizpůsobit překlad nové komunikační situaci a zachovat jeho kvality.(in English): The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to translate a part of the chapter Natural Forms from the book Renaissance Gothic. Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe 1470 - 1540 written by Ethan Matt Kavaler, a Canadian professor of art history. In the commentary that follows the translation the author considers the specific factors that have influenced the genesis of the original. Then, she analyses its lexical and stylistic features and characterizes the text as an essay of considerable qualities. Drawing upon the analysis the author describes the translation problems and the translator's strategies employed to solve them. She attempts to identify the translation shifts and discusses the reasons of their occurrence. It is observed that the translation tends to be more explicit, uses more variable language solutions and some solutions of increased expressive intensity. This tendency is consistent with the effort to adapt the translation to the target language culture and to preserve the quality of the original.Ústav translatologieInstitute of Translation StudiesFilozofická fakultaFaculty of Art

Questions of Saxon Renaissance

Předkládaná diplomová práce pojednává o tématu saské renesance s důrazem na její architektonické projevy v Čechách. Práce se zabývá praktickými otázkami, které slouží jako podklad pro teoretické úvahy. V první části je učiněn pokus o sestavení památkového fondu. Na základě poznatků získaných z přehledu názorů dosavadního bádání byla určena zařazovací metoda a proveden popis jednotlivých architektonických děl. Výsledkem byla typologická stratifikace a výčet charakteristických rysů památek české sasko-renesanční architektury. Následně jsou diskutovány obecnější otázky architektury saské renesance: její ovlivnění hrázděným stavitelstvím, vznik a úloha sedátkového portálu a role rodu Pernštejnů. Navržena je možnost souvislosti saské renesance a raně renesančních terakotových dílů. Druhá část práce pojednává o kontextu sasko-renesanční architektury. Nejprve podává přehled architektonického dění ve Francii prvních dvou dekád 16. století. Větší pozornost je věnována renesanční architektuře téhož století v Německu a zejména v Sasku. Součástí kapitoly jsou teoretické úvahy o podobě renesance v Záalpí. Práce také analyzuje specifika prostředí severozápadních Čech, kde architektura saské renesance vznikala, a to z hlediska geografického, ekonomického a sociálního, přičemž je zejména pojednáno o rodech...Dealing with both practical and consequently theoretical aspects, the thesis treats the Saxon Renaissance with the emphasis on the architecture in the Czech Republic. The purpose of the first part was to put together a list of historical monuments. Supported by previous research the selection method was determined and the individual buildings described. As a result we organized them into types and specified the Saxon Renaissance architectural features. Then we discussed broader issues related to the Saxon Renaissance architecture that were: the influence of Saxon timber-framed architecture, the origins and the role of the portal with seat shaped niches in the jambs; we re-examined the importance of the architectural commissions of the house of Pernštejn and we proposed to link the Bohemian Saxon Renaissance architecture with Czech early renaissance terracotta pieces. The second part of the thesis further explores the contextual issues. It tracks the early sixteen century French architecture and focuses on the German renaissance architecture, that of Saxony in particular. Then some theoretical reflections on the character of transalpine architecture are presented. Consequently, the thesis analyses the particularities of the region where the Saxon Renaissance architecture appeared - North-western...Institute of Art HistoryÚstav pro dějiny uměníFaculty of ArtsFilozofická fakult

Questions of Style Pluralism and the Portals from the Circle of Benedikt Ried

The submitted dissertation's main object is an in-depth study of the portals created by the lodge of Benedikt Ried at Prague Castle and a group of portals that reflected the lodge's stimuli in Bohemian towns in the first half of the 16th century. The first all'antica portals in Moravia and Italianate works in Prague towns were also researched with the aim to analyse and better understand the contact of local "Gothic" tradition and incoming Italianate forms ca. 1500 in the area of interest on a wider theoretical background. The thesis consists of two parts. First, the key theoretical concepts of how to interpret the contact of the "Gothic" with the "Renaissance" relevant to the object of empirical study are introduced. As recent theoretical thought showed, the tendency to revise the interpretation of formal syncretism and pluralism in European architecture ca. 1500 stemmed, among others, from the need to correct several patterns common in former research methods, i.e. the presumption of stylistic unity, the effort to identify one principle through the "classical stylistic phase" supposed to be common to all artworks of a given time period, and the simultaneous use of the term "Renaissance" for both a set of stylistic features and a historical era connected with the idea of progress. All these were..

Questions of Saxon Renaissance

Dealing with both practical and consequently theoretical aspects, the thesis treats the Saxon Renaissance with the emphasis on the architecture in the Czech Republic. The purpose of the first part was to put together a list of historical monuments. Supported by previous research the selection method was determined and the individual buildings described. As a result we organized them into types and specified the Saxon Renaissance architectural features. Then we discussed broader issues related to the Saxon Renaissance architecture that were: the influence of Saxon timber-framed architecture, the origins and the role of the portal with seat shaped niches in the jambs; we re-examined the importance of the architectural commissions of the house of Pernštejn and we proposed to link the Bohemian Saxon Renaissance architecture with Czech early renaissance terracotta pieces. The second part of the thesis further explores the contextual issues. It tracks the early sixteen century French architecture and focuses on the German renaissance architecture, that of Saxony in particular. Then some theoretical reflections on the character of transalpine architecture are presented. Consequently, the thesis analyses the particularities of the region where the Saxon Renaissance architecture appeared - North-western..

An annotated translation: Natural Forms, in: Ethan Matt Kavaler, Renaissance Gothic. Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe 1470 - 1540. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012, pp. 199-229. (ISBN 978-0-300-16792-4)

(in English): The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to translate a part of the chapter Natural Forms from the book Renaissance Gothic. Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe 1470 - 1540 written by Ethan Matt Kavaler, a Canadian professor of art history. In the commentary that follows the translation the author considers the specific factors that have influenced the genesis of the original. Then, she analyses its lexical and stylistic features and characterizes the text as an essay of considerable qualities. Drawing upon the analysis the author describes the translation problems and the translator's strategies employed to solve them. She attempts to identify the translation shifts and discusses the reasons of their occurrence. It is observed that the translation tends to be more explicit, uses more variable language solutions and some solutions of increased expressive intensity. This tendency is consistent with the effort to adapt the translation to the target language culture and to preserve the quality of the original

Church of st. Lawrence in Ves and its broader art-historical perspective

This work aims to gather all information possible concerning the general and architectural history of the church of Saint Lawrence in Ves in the region of Frýdlantsko and to summarize the research conducted until now. In order to examine the situation of the church the primary point of our research is the documentation, description and the analysis of its architectural form based on interpreting of the acquired knowledge. Next objective is to attempt to define the place of the church in the cultural, historical and architectural context of the region and thus to make a broader overview of the late gothic architectural activity in northern Bohemia of the relevant period of time and to find the closest examples using similar architectural scheme. Then the work treats with the definition of the relationship of the church to the phenomenon of double-nave plan churches, especially the central type, in Czech medieval architecture. Finally some ways in which the question of employment of double-nave planning can be viewed in general are presented together with some ideas about the specifics, which might have possibly influenced the creation of the artistic form of the church in Ves