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  1. Fun Plzeň fact:
    The building next to today’s McDonald’s once housed the Communist Party — complete with a massive red star on the roof. After ’89 they didn’t remove it, just flopped it down so no one could see it.
    I spotted it on the roof in 2015.

    Since 2019 you can visit this retired metal celebrity at DEPO2015.

    plzensky.denik.cz/zpravy_regio

    #Plzeň #Pilsen #Czechia #PlzenskaZajimavost #Historie #DEPO2015 #UrbanHistory #Zajímavosti #CzechHistory #Communism #Architecture

  2. The mistaken attribution to Durer of an illustration showing the burning of Jan Hus on this web page byteseu.com/1168650/

    brought me to this fascinating discussion of the illustrations of the Jena Codex.

    academia.edu/66845480/The_Frag

    As I looked at the pictures, I realized that I have hardly ever seen any Hussite art. These Jena Codex illustrations are amongst the rare examples to survive, because the codex was taken to Germany in the second half of the 16th century and thereby escaped the destruction of Hussite imagery that accompanied the recatholicization of Bohemia.

    See also this page:
    muzeum3000.nm.cz/national-muse

    #JenaCodex #JanHus #Books #ManuscriptIllumination #Bohemia #Czechia #CzechHistory #Art #MedievalArt