Current Affairs Mucha's masterpiece may be in Prague by 2008

14-12-2006 14:45 | Ilya Marritz

The Art Nouveau "Slav Epic" is considered the magnum opus of the artist Alfons Mucha. But for decades the paintings have been housed "temporarily" in a chateau in a small Moravian village which is difficult to reach. The city of Prague has long wished to build a home for the paintings, and a spokesman now says construction of a permanent gallery could start in a little more than a year.

A model of a new pavilion for the Slav Epic A model of a new pavilion for the Slav Epic   Back

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