provenance: Danišovce, Spiš county

location: Spiš Museum in Levoča

height: 120 cm

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author: Master Paul of Levoča

dating: c 1520

height: 71 cm

location: parish church of St Nicholas, Prešov, Šariš county, Slovakia

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location: Central Slovak Museum, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

provenance: Selce pri Banskej Bystrici

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He's looking at you kid.

provenance: St Ann´s church, Bardejov, north-east Slovakia

location: Šariš Museum Bardejov

IMHO the statue comes from 1480s

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Baptism of Christ on the other side of the panel

provenance: St Elizabeth Cathedral in Košice

location: East Slovak Museum in Košice

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author: Master Paul of Levoča

dating: c 1520

height: 71 cm

location: parish church of St Nicholas, Prešov, Šariš county, Slovakia

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provenance: Richvald, Šariš county, north-east Slovakia

location: Šariš Museum Bardejov

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Interesting document of the counter-reformation sacral art - 17th century roman-catholic Gothic Revival altarpiece in the style of local late Gothic altars with wings and predella. The upper part with the medallion depicting David with lions is a Baroque addition from 1687.

location: East Slovak Museum, Košice

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Interesting document of the counter-reformation sacral art - 17th century roman-catholic Gothic Revival altarpiece in the style of local late Gothic altars with wings and predella. The upper part with the medallion depicting David with lions is a Baroque addition from 1687.

location: East Slovak Museum, Košice

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Plešivec is an ancient seat of the Bubek family. The Ákoš family, the ancestors of the Bubeks, received it from King Belo IV. in 1243, after the battle on the Slaná River, where the ancestor of the Bubeks, Detrik, allegedly saved the king’s life. After stabilizing his position in 1320, Dominik Bubek built a water castle in Plešivec. In its vicinity, he built a monumental church, which also served as a burial place for the representatives of the family. It was constructed on the site of an older church built by his ancestors. The church, originally nearly twice as long as it is now, was a two-nave Gothic building with a polygonal ending of the chancel, originally vaulted on the central pillars.

From 1349, we have a record of the request of Juraj Bubek to the Pope for the possibility of collecting the indulgences to finance its construction. In the middle of the 14th century, the interior of the church was completed with fresco paintings of very high quality, carried out by Italian masters. In the first quarter of the 15th century, the church was completed with the north-facing funeral chapel of the Bubeks, built according to the pattern of the Spiš funeral chapels. We enter into the chapel through an impressive portal, the architecture of which is associated with the works of the Cathedral of St. Elizabeth in Košice. In its interior, we find three three-part late Gothic windows with an original tracery in the ogive arch shape and corbels of the former vaults.

In 1558, at the time of the Turkish threat, the church was severely damaged, the vault collapsed and the building remained as a ruin until its reconstruction in 1617. By that time, the church was taken over by the reformed believers who reduced its layout to its current length of 19 meters; they covered the nave with a flat ceiling and closed the entrance to the unused chapel. At that stage, the entrance to the church was established from the south and three window openings were made on the south wall. From that period comes a valuable matroneum with painted decorations from 1627. In 1807, a bell-tower was built, a beautiful example of the so-called Gemer classicism.

2007 // 80 x 40 cm // crucifix, lc-display, microcontroller, java application, Internet connection // shows actual stock exchange prices of the shares, the Vatican owns // for more information about this work see: www.markuskison.de/Ticker_Cross/

Parish church of the Holy Cross, Kežmarok, Spiš county, Slovakia

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property of the Slovak National Gallery Bratislava, Slovakia

height 150 cm

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This complex of sacral buildings set in a beatiful scenery is a superb demonstration of human art intertwined with nature´s charms. The corner-stone for the Calvary was set on September 14 th, 1744 and in almost exactly seven years, the complex was finished. The whole project was initiated by the Jesuit priest František Perger. The Calvary consists of 23 objects, representing a true gallery of sacral art, depicting the last moments in the life of Christ.

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Martyrdom of St John Evangelist on the other side of the panel

provenance: St Elizabeth Cathedral in Košice

location: East Slovak Museum in Košice

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Interesting document of the counter-reformation sacral art - 17th century roman-catholic Gothic Revival altarpiece in the style of local late Gothic altars with wings and predella. The upper part with the medallion depicting David with lions is a Baroque addition from 1687.

location: East Slovak Museum, Košice

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Mudding through to sacral springs

Interesting document of the counter-reformation sacral art - 17th century roman-catholic Gothic Revival altarpiece in the style of local late Gothic altars with wings and predella. The upper part with the medallion depicting David with lions is a Baroque addition from 1687.

location: East Slovak Museum, Košice

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Altar of the Doctors of the Church, 1510-1520

author of the statues: Master Paul of Levoča

author of the paintings: Master Petrus

location: Šariš, eastern Slovakia

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Zack’s influence comes from Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo... These great artists who have forever revolutionized art, architecture, and even science. The first of their times to sublimate men and women by giving them the appearance of living God, "half-man, half God".

location: parish church of St Nicholas in Prešov, eastern Slovakia

dating: c 1720s

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Parish church of the Holy Cross, Kežmarok, Spiš county, Slovakia

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location: Central Slovak Museum, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

provenance: Selce pri Banskej Bystrici

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E' risaputo, ma non guasta ripeterlo, che la nostra epoca ha una spiccata tendenza a creare dei miti che, esaurita la loro funzione (miracolistica o catartica), sono poi immolati sull'altare del progresso e distrutti solo perché dalle loro ceneri possano sorgerne altri più nuovi e, in virtù di questo, ricchi di rinnovate proprietà taumaturgiche. Perché il mito si perpetui, sia pure con una ritualità di volta in volta diversa, occorre un sacerdote che ne garantisca la sacralità. Internet, ultimo mito quotidianamente celebrato, in grado di incantare ormai le folle, si è percorsa tanta strada grazie ad una seduzione in più: la promessa che ognuno, al pari dell'altro possa incarnare il ruolo del sacerdote prescelto, di chi conosce la formula magica per realizzare l'incantesimo.

E gli incantesimi sono davvero tanti, in grado di soddisfare le esigenze più svariate, esigenze che l'apparente semplicità del mezzo pone tutte su uno stesso piano: dall'ordinazione di una pizza al sogno, da sempre vagheggiato, di un contenitore universale di tutto lo scibile.

La tecnologia, dunque, al servizio dell'uomo, di un uomo che non ha perso, bensì ritrovato accanto a tanti consumistici aneliti anche quello umanistico alla conoscenza. Fin qui il quadro è idilliaco e sembra avvalorare l'ipotesi che sì, in Internet ci sia veramente già tutto gratis.

Tuttavia se si muta la prospettiva, e si prova a osservare il rovescio della medaglia, ecco che il sogno di un sapere onnicomprensivo, ordinato sistematicamente si trasforma pian, piano fino a trasfigurarsi nell'inquietante visione del labirinto borgesiano: un gioco inesauribile di scatole cinesi o di mondi possibili di cui non è facile riconoscere il migliore.

provenance: Zlaté, Šariš county, north-east Slovakia

location: Šariš Museum Bardejov

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location: parish church of St Nicholas in Prešov, eastern Slovakia

dating: c 1720s

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Interesting document of the counter-reformation sacral art - 17th century roman-catholic Gothic Revival altarpiece in the style of local late Gothic altars with wings and predella. The upper part with the medallion depicting David with lions is a Baroque addition from 1687.

location: East Slovak Museum, Košice

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Altar of the Doctors of the Church, 1510-1520

author of the statues: Master Paul of Levoča

author of the paintings: Master Petrus

location: Šariš, eastern Slovakia

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Church of St. John of Dukla and Monastery of Bernadine monks - the church with two towers was built between 1761 and 1764 in the late baroque style. The temple was extended from 1890 to 1902 when a chapel of St. John of Dukla was built and the main nave was enlarged. Also monastery building was added. The interior dates back to the turn of the 19th century. The paintings of Tadeusz Popiel present scenes from life of St. John of Dukla. There is a silver coffin with relics of St. John. Pope John Paul II came to Dukla on 9th of August, a day before the canonization event and he spent a night in the monastery

photographed against two sources of light

property of the Archdiocesan Museum in Krakow, Poland

provenance: Ludzmierz, Lesser Poland

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author: Master Paul of Levoča

dating: c 1520

height: 71 cm

location: parish church of St Nicholas, Prešov, Šariš county, Slovakia

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High altar of the Holy Cross: panel paintings and predella reliefs by anonymous master from 1450-1460, over life size crucifixion (one of the best in Slovakia) by Master Paul of Levoča from around 1510, Virgin Mary by an unknown Kežmarok carver from the beginning of the 16th century (headwear is a later addition), St John and Mary Magdalene are from 17th century.

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Sacral Chakra aka Svadisthana: Body Anatomy

And then it happened a little higher up than the root!

It was the second chakra – the sacral chakra – this time, called Svadisthana in Sanskrit and its body anatomy, which had come into the action of dissolving its complex, rigid...

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from the altarpiece of Ľubica, north-east Slovakia

location: East Slovak Museum Košice

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Interesting document of the counter-reformation sacral art - 17th century roman-catholic Gothic Revival altarpiece in the style of local late Gothic altars with wings and predella. The upper part with the medallion depicting David with lions is a Baroque addition from 1687.

location: East Slovak Museum, Košice

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Interesting document of the counter-reformation sacral art - 17th century roman-catholic Gothic Revival altarpiece in the style of local late Gothic altars with wings and predella. The upper part with the medallion depicting David with lions is a Baroque addition from 1687.

location: East Slovak Museum, Košice

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provenance: St Egidius Basilica in Bardejov, north-east Slovakia

location: Šariš Museum Bardejov

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