Alphonse Mucha's Painting of Milic from Kromeriz Shows 14th Century Monastery Conversion
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Alphonse Mucha was a painter and he
painted 20 pictures in the Slav Epic
Picture of Milic from Kromeriz
describes a reconstruction of a brothel
to a monastery
Jan Milic was an important figure in
the fourteenth century
People at the top of the image on the
scaffolding work on the construction
of the monastery
Below them is Milic itself , preaching
to a group of women , who exchange
their worldly clothes for the white
robes of nuns
Alphonse Mucha
picture of Milic z Kromerize
4.
In 1316 in Bohemia there was a big
famine and black deaath (plague)
Later while most of Europe was
decimated by one massacre after
another, the Czech lands flourished
On the Czech throne sat Charles IV.
of the Luxembourg dynasty
Prague became the center of Europe
14th century
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Charles IV. ruled Czech lands and he
was an emperor in the Holy Roman
empire
He built Charles‘s Bridge in Prague
and he founded a first university in
the centre of Europe (1348)
For his rule were produced the new
coronation jewels
Charles IV.