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Dance Of Death
There are a few good examples of the traditional Dance of
Death to be found in Bohemia:
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St. Christopher's Church, is a small wooden church located near Liberec in northern Bohemia. The mortuary in the churchyard was decorated with 8 panels depicting a series of Dance of Death pictures. They have been removed, however, and today are stored in the repository of the North Bohemian Museum. |
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Kuks Hospital. When mineral water springs were discovered at the village of Kuks, in northeastern Bohemia around 1694, Count Frantisek Spork had a complex of buildings constructed there. Based on these mineral springs, this complex was intended to preserve the physical and spiritual health of people, with a church, hospital, bathouses and several other buildings. The hospital, a big, grey monstrosity, once housed a series of Dance of Death pictures, apparently inspired by Holbein's Dance of Death. Today, only two of these pictures remain. However, there is a crypt under the building, with an excellent rendition of a skeleton and typical inscriptions on the door leading from the chapel. |
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The Carthusian Monastery in Královo Pole in Brno was founded in 1375 and settled by Carthusian monks from Austria. There is only the one painting of monks in white habits being attacked by dancing skeletons, but it is well preserved. Today the building is home to the Information Technology Faculty of the Brno College of Technology. |
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