It is a grand 80-meter building with a huge dome, twenty meters in diameter, decorated with many sculptures, paintings by famous masters of the time, frescoes and stucco, elegant columns and spacious galleries, and the interior of the temple from the beginning impressed citizens and visitors and splendor.
The size of the temple, the panoramic value of which is decisive for the left bank of the Vltava, is impressive: the width of the temple is 40 meters, the width of the nave is 30 meters, the length of the temple without stairs is 60 meters. The height of the dome inside is 50 meters, outside - 70 meters, with a lantern 79 meters, the outer size of the circle under the dome (vestibule) is 20 meters, the inner size -17 meters.
The interior of the temple is an outstanding example of Baroque art. The frescoes of the temple cover an area of .3000 m? . The most outstanding example of decoration, however, are the paintings of Karel Shkreta: The Crucifixion, a work of 1646, which hangs in the chapel of St.
Barbara, and the Passion Cycle, which includes 10 paintings in the church gallery from the second half of the 60s of the XVII century, was originally written for the local professional Jesuit house. Other paintings in the chapels were painted by the Jesuit artist Ignatius Raab.
The sculptural design consists of more than fifty sculptures. The most famous of these are life-size statues of holy Jesuits near the nave columns. In a glazed cupboard to the left of the altar at the back of the church is a Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary of Foy, which is the oldest sculpture in the church, it was donated to the Jesuits by the Belgians in 1629.
The size of the temple, the panoramic value of which is decisive for the left bank of the Vltava, is impressive: the width of the temple is 40 meters, the width of the nave is 30 meters, the length of the temple without stairs is 60 meters. The height of the dome inside is 50 meters, outside - 70 meters, with a lantern 79 meters, the outer size of the circle under the dome (vestibule) is 20 meters, the inner size -17 meters.
The interior of the temple is an outstanding example of Baroque art. The frescoes of the temple cover an area of .3000 m? . The most outstanding example of decoration, however, are the paintings of Karel Shkreta: The Crucifixion, a work of 1646, which hangs in the chapel of St.
Barbara, and the Passion Cycle, which includes 10 paintings in the church gallery from the second half of the 60s of the XVII century, was originally written for the local professional Jesuit house. Other paintings in the chapels were painted by the Jesuit artist Ignatius Raab.
The sculptural design consists of more than fifty sculptures. The most famous of these are life-size statues of holy Jesuits near the nave columns. In a glazed cupboard to the left of the altar at the back of the church is a Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary of Foy, which is the oldest sculpture in the church, it was donated to the Jesuits by the Belgians in 1629.
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