Matyáš Bernard Braun

Gypsum

Vision of St. Luitgards from Charles Bridge in Prague. The author is Matyáš Bernard Braun (1684-1738). One of the most important sculptures of the Czech radical baroque depicts a mystical vision of a blind Flemish nun, to whom Christ bent down from the cross to show her his wounds. The composition based on a drawing by J.K.Liška was painted by Petr Brandl for an altarpiece for the Cistercians in Sedlec near Kutná Hora, the same customers had the sculpture erected on the Charles Bridge.

1,000.00 €