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 Wenceslaus. The first master builder was a Frenchman Matthias of Arras, summoned from the papal palace in Avignon. Matthias designed the overall layout of the building as, basically, an import of French Gothic: a triple-naved basilica with flying buttresses, short transept, five-bayed choir and decagon apse with ambulatory and radiating chapels. However, he lived to build only the easternmost parts of the choir: the arcades and the ambulatory. The slender verticality of Late French Gothic and clear, almost rigid respect of proportions distinguish his work today.
The Cathedral of St. Vitus had tremendous influence on the development of Late Gothic style characteristic for Central Europe. Members of Parler workshop, and indeed, the Parler clan (both of which were established at the building site of St. Vitus) designed numerous churches and buildings across Central Europe. More notable examples include Stephansdom cathedral in Vienna, Strasbourg Cathedral, Church of St. Marko in Zagreb and the Church of St. Barbara in Kutna Hora, also in Czech Republic. Regional Gothic styles of Slovenia, northern Croatia, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland and southern Germany were all heavily influenced by Parler design.
You're back in town!! Hope all is fine, good to see you back:) Like your framing for sure, still not very good at that, also thinking when having this centrated like this, isnt that too...much? But you might be right to make it more quiet.....I will look back at it by times, thanks a lot!! Jenxx
This grabbed my attention cos I like the way the cathedral is framed by the arch and the wires give it an original twist. My next reaction was to do this to it - don't know if I'm right though...
As I know you like BW shots I was hoping you would like this, even with the lines or maybe more because of the lines, its funny how a shot later gets into you and seeing the beauty of a city like this.... Wishing you a relaxt weekend my friend, Jenxx
Great comment my dear, maybe not the best view with all the lines, but that made more interesting to me, as this spot and cathedral is so very famous for visitors already! Its a lovely city with so much history, takes you days to see all this.... Be well, Jenxx
Prague is one big city full of history and different stories to tell, its like an island in the middle of Czeck, just as Karlovy Vary, another beautiful town there! I did have my treatments in the spa's here, nothing can compare with their way of treating when you are ill... Hoping this is what you think a pro piece of work, of course it can always be better! Enjoy your free Saturday, some relaxing maybe:) Hugs Jen
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