Artibus et Historiae no. 28 (XIV)
1993, ISSN 0391-9064Up
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PAVEL PREISS, PAVEL BLATTNÝ - Additions to Carlo Carlone's Oeuvre in Bohemia
The Italian painter Carlo Carlone (1686-1771) was invited to Prague in 1727 to decorate the interior of the Gallas Palace in the Old Town. That same year he executed two altarpieces elsewhere in Bohemia, The Apotheosis of St. John Nepomuk for the chapel of the Sternberg castle at Smirice, and The Annunciation to St. Joseph for the high altar of the chapel of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception at the Piarist college at Slaný (Schlan). The latter painting, while not unknown, was inexplicably ignored in the art historical literature on the college. Now that the work has been restored, Carlone's virtuosity and sureness of touch can once again be fully appreciated.
