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Current AffairsPainter Josef Capek's "Foot Bath" sets new Czech auction record
2006 has been an unusually successful year for Czech art auction houses.
With the number of collectors growing and ever more valuable pieces on
sale, turnover is soaring. This weekend, another record was broken. A
Cubist painting by the renowned twentieth century artist Josef Capek was
auctioned off for 9.3 million Czech crowns, which is over 430,000 US
dollars. Dita Asiedu reports:
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Current AffairsExhibition marks 500 years since painting of "The Feast of the Rose Garlands"
One of the most precious works of art to be seen in the Czech Republic is
no doubt "The Feast of the Rose Garlands" by the German painter
Albrecht Duerer. Exactly 500 years have passed since the masterpiece was
painted in Venice and to mark the anniversary, Prague's National Gallery
is holding an exhibition this summer, displaying the painting, along with
other works by Duerer and many tributes to the original masterpiece.
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Current AffairsSpeculation over Rembrandt painting: is the old man Jan Amos Comenius?
Millions of people have admired it at the Uffizi Art Gallery in Florence.
Now, Rembrandt's painting of an old man has acquired a new significance
for Czechs. According to Ernst van de Wetering, a Dutch art specialist,
the anonymous old man in the painting is almost certainly one of the most
prominent figures in Czech history - the teacher of nations Jan Amos
Comenius.
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This week in Mailbox: Czech ice hockey player Jaromir Jagr; the origin of
the name Hybernska Street; 'Slav Epic' by Alfons Mucha; street crime in
Prague. Listeners quoted: Constantin Liviu Viorel, Romania; Stuart
Paterson, UK; Steve Scott; Nicole Buckler, Ireland.
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Current AffairsSpring season for Czech auction houses starts off with a bang
The Czech Republic's art and antique auction houses certainly have a season
to look forward to if this year's opening auction at the Dorotheum auction
house in Prague is anything to go by. Three records were broken on
Saturday. Items valued at 14 million crowns (a little over half a million
US dollars) were sold for 22 million (around 900,000 US dollars), the best
turnover that the country's established houses have ever witnessed.
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Current AffairsLaughing at Czech politics: Caricature art 1900 -1950
With caricatures at the centre of attention and debate these days, the
opening of a new exhibition in Prague's Stone Bell House has turned out to
be most timely. Inspired by the popularity of a show last year devoted to
Adolf Hoffmeister's long career, the City Gallery in Prague and the
National Gallery have designed an exhibition featuring Czech caricature
art from 1900 - 1950.
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Current AffairsThe unbelievable story of a 17th-century cameo
Lost, stolen, sold, discovered in an antique shop, confiscated, ruined by a
flood and finally restored and returned to its owner - that's the turbulent
story of a 17th-century painting of a wealthy Prague burgher that was once
in possession of Prague's Municipal Museum. The museum is now showing the
cameo portrait whose story is just as interesting as the story of the man
it depicts.
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The smallest zoo in the Czech Republic has announced the birth of the
smallest deer in the world - a barking Muntjak! Climbing into a 15 metre
long crocodile's jaws is easier than it may sound. And "WANTED"
for graffity art! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Current Affairs18th century painting re-exhibited at National Gallery after almost 100 years
The National Gallery in Prague boasts a new exhibit in its Collection of
Old Masters, although new is not quite the word. On the contrary the
ceiling canvas "Phaeton Begging the Chariot of Apollo" dates
back to the beginning of the 18th century, and has been in the Gallery's
possession for many years. But the work was damaged and for almost a
hundred years was hidden from visitors. Now it has been painstakingly
restored and since Tuesday has been on show in the National Gallery's
Sternberg Palace.
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Current AffairsThe 'Chronicle of Dalimil': Sold to the Czech Republic for nine million crowns
In a whirl of smoke and mirrors, the Czech Republic acquired its most
valuable manuscript for generations on Thursday. A mystery bidder, who
turned out to be working for the Czech National Library, paid nine million
crowns (around four hundred thousand US dollars) to buy a unique medieval
manuscript - the Chronicle of Dalimil - that relates the history of
Bohemia. Rosie Johnston has been following the story, and asked Czech
Radio's Jan Krelina in Paris about the sale
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