VITRUVIUS MORAVICUS

VITRUVIUS MORAVICUS: Neoclassical Aristocratic Architecture in Moravia and Silesia after 1800

Brno, National Heritage Institute 2015
ISBN 978-80-87231-27-2

ANNOTATION:

The book Vitruvius moravicus deals with the issue of neoclassical architecture in Moravia and Silesia. It points out the changes and continuities in the lifestyle of the nobility, the newly understood connection of architecture with nature. It presents it through texts on individual architectural units, albeit briefly conceived, but based on the latest findings of historians, conservationists and art historians. Moreover, the texts naturally correspond with contemporary and modern depictions of monuments, accelerating the value of the publication.

The book is not primarily concerned with the architecture of the Liechtenstein court. However, it shows all the more how important a place Liechtenstein architecture occupied in the neoclassical period in Central Europe. Belveder, the castle park in Lednice, Nové Zámky near Litovel, the castle in Adamov, Nový Dvůr, themek Pohansko, Diana's Temple, Rybniční zámček, Kolonáda na Rajstně, Apollo's Temple, zámek in Břežany, the princely tomb in Vranov u Brna, Hraniční zámček, the Temple of the Three Graces, these Liechtenstein monuments form the architectural style and with it the first half of the 19th century. They also occupy more than a third of the present book. It turns out that it was largely the Liechtensteins who determined the shape of Moravian neoclassical architecture.