Bez hranic: Umění v Krušnohoří mezi gotikou a renesancí = Without borders: Art in the Ore Mountains between the gothic and renaissance

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During the high and late Middle Ages, the Ore Mountains and surrounding territories were defined by economically powerful and culturally rich towns influenced by thriving mining activities on both sides of the borderlands in Bohemia and Saxony. Two trade routes from Prague, the center of the Bohemian Kingdom, facilitated economic life in the mountains. The exhibition guidebook showcases artworks from the 14th to 16th centuries created in these border regions. The wealth of these towns in the late Middle Ages spurred a strong desire for artistic self-representation among towns, nobility, monasteries, and individuals, resulting in works that meet high art-historical standards. The exhibition features sections on the culture of these towns, highlighting sculpture, painting (including altars), liturgical objects (chalices, monstrances, reliquaries), liturgical books, and decorative architecture (portals). It also explores mining through tools (mattocks, hammers, lamps) and coins (Jáchymov thalers) from the Jáchymov mint. Individual chapters focus on specific donor and cultural entities, such as royal towns, significant monasteries, and noble families, examining the development and forms of patronage in the late Middle Ages. Exhibition: National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic (27.11.2015-13.03.2016).