Lapidarium is essentially an enchanting storybook, elegantly mixing archaeology, mythology, literature, and philosophy that builds a rock-solid case that “so much of what we think of as culture—our modes and places of worship, the tools we use, the materials in which we adorn ourselves, the stories we spin, our graven images—is formed by geology”. g. apart of the Marian column from the Old Town Square, one of the masterpieces by Jan Jiří Bendl, who is also the author of equestrian statue of St. Six original gothic statues from the Charles Bridge Tower (Emperor Charles IV, his son King Wenceslas IV, patron saints Vitus, Adalbert of Prague, Sigismundus and a lion can be seen here among others.

Do lapidárií od té doby bývají přemísťovány originály sochařských děl, které zpravidla byly zásadně poškozeny, a proto je na jejich stanovišti nahradily kopie, významné historické památky (pamětní nápisové desky) či ohrožené památky (např. Tento název se vžil jako označení sbírky kamenných soch aarchitektonických prvků ze středověku inovověku. Rochester Cathedral 1540-1983; A record of maintenance repair alteration restoration decoration furnishing and survey of the fabric. It is the largest permanent exhibition of historical collections of stone sculpture, tombs and architectonical fragments originating from Bohemia, mostly from Prague.In 1980, Arnold noted that, despite Payne's efforts, 'the stones had since been scattered again, a few preserved elsewhere in the cathedral, but many simply piled up on a ledge inside the ruined Chapter House, exposed to the weather. Wenceslaus with a fountain in the Horse Market Square, the Monument to Marshal Radetzky on Lesser Town Square) had to be removed, and they found a place in the museum. On the occasions of the Jubilee Exhibition in 1891 and the Czechoslovak Ethnographic Exhibition in 1895 further collection items were acquired, and in 1898 they became the basis of the Exhibition of Monuments of Old Architecture and the Exhibition of Architecture and Engineering, which took place at the Prague Exhibition Grounds. The sculptor, Barbara Hepworth, who grew up and studied in West Yorkshire, developed a collaborative bond with the stones, dry stone walls and rocks formations of the area from early childhood, famously once saying, “I gradually discovered the pagan landscape… which still has a deep effect on me. The book oozes luxury and quality with a velvety soft jacket, gilded lettering, the stratigraphic scale edging the pages to delineate different sections and showcase images throughout; it is a triumph of elegant design.

Vitus Cathedral, Vyšehrad), aristocratic palaces and burgher’s houses, and also archaeological and building surveys.Close-up photography and the development of the SfM record of in situ architectural features has been essential to stylistic comparison and Rochester Cathedral Lapidarium and spolia 29 Jacob H. Fragments of Virgin Mary Immaculata among four archangels fighting with dragons, five statues of sandstone made by Johann Georg Bendl for the Old Town Square in Prague in 1650 after the idea of Emperor Ferdinand III ( Maria Victoria) and destroyed by anarchists in 1918.