Old City: Tyn Court
Staré Mesto CZ - Praha 1
Protected by its walls, Tyn Court stands opposite St James's Church. Among the most remarkable dwellings is the Renaissance style Granovsky Palace (approx 1560), decorated with its piano nobile on an open loggia painted with biblical and mythological frescos. On the facade of the Black Bear (n° 7/642), there are statues of various saints. The Golden Ring (n°6) has a maze of different rooms, some dating back to the 13C, and houses collections of 20C art, complementing those in the Exhibition Palace. The collections are arranged by theme and include artists from the beginning of the century such as Svabinsky, Hudecek and Zzravy as well as members of Group 42 of the 1940s and resolutely contemporary artists. One sad curiosity is the sculpture Hands by Eva Kmentova which was riddled with Russian bullets during the Prague Spring of 1968. On leaving the Court, St James's Church has a perceptible early Gothic flavour (1335-1374) despite its later Baroque additions of 1690-1702, with its nave's length (only St Guy's is longer) and height. The Counter-Reform can be seen in the golden ceiling pillars, and particularly the elaborate frame around the altar painting and the monument to Jan Vaclav of Mitrovice (1714), an allegoric variation on the vanities.
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