4321 x 6481 px | 36,6 x 54,9 cm | 14,4 x 21,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
26 mars 2010
Lieu:
Prague castle, Prague, Czech Republic
Informations supplémentaires:
Saint Vitus's Cathedral (Czech: Katedrála svatého Víta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Prague, and the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. The full name of the cathedral is St. Vitus, St. Wenceslas and St. Adalbert Cathedral. Located within Prague Castle and containing the tombs of many Bohemian kings, this cathedral is an excellent example of Gothic architecture and is the biggest and most important church in the country. The present day Gothic Cathedral was founded on 21st of November, 1344, when the Prague bishopric was raised to an archbishopric. Its patrons were the chapter of cathedral (led by a Dean), the Archbishop Arnost of Pardubice, and, above all, Charles IV, King of Bohemia and a soon-to-be Holy Roman Emperor, who intended the new cathedral to be a coronation church, family crypt, treasury for the most precious relics of the kingdom, and the last resting place cum pilgrimage site of patron saint Wenceslas. The first master builder was a Frenchman Matthias of Arras. However, he lived to build only the easternmost parts of the choir: the arcades and the ambulatory. After Matthias' death in 1352, a new master builder took over the cathedral workshop. This was Peter Parler, at that time only 23-years old Parler's bold and innovative design brought in a unique new synthesis of Gothic elements in architecture. By 1397, when Peter Parler died, only the choir and parts of the transept were finished. Through most of the following centuries, the cathedral stood only half-finished. In 1844 Vácslav Pešina, an energetic St Vitus canon, together with Neo-Gothic architect Josef Kranner presented a program for completion of the cathedral. By the time of St Wenceslas jubilee in 1929, the St Vitus cathedral was finally finished, 600 years after it was begun.
