Czech Gothic architecture
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Czech Gothic architecture refers to the architectural period primarily of the Late Middle Ages in the area of the present-day Czech Republic.
Choir of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague built by Matthias of Arras and Peter Parler in 1344–1385
Portal of the church of Porta coeli Convent in Tišnov near Brno, Moravia, 1230s.
Portal of the Old New Synagogue in Prague using vine-leaf motifs, after 1270.
Teplá Abbey Church, Bohemia, consecrated in 1232
St. Vitus Cathedral
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The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert is a Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, and the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated on
Czech Gothic architecture
…was a very important supporter of art. He founded many new buildings, for example the most important High Gothic building in the Czech Republic – the St. Vitus Cathedral at the Prague Castle – which was founded by him, his father King John and the Prague Archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice in 1344. The first architect was a…
St. Vitus Cathedral is situated entirely within the Prague Castle complex.
Panorama of the transept
Mosaic of the Last Judgment at the Golden Gate (annotated)
View of the cathedral and Prague Castle above the river Vltava