#jenacodex — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jenacodex, aggregated by home.social.
-
The mistaken attribution to Durer of an illustration showing the burning of Jan Hus on this web page https://www.byteseu.com/1168650/
brought me to this fascinating discussion of the illustrations of the Jena Codex.
https://www.academia.edu/66845480/The_Fragile_Contemporaneity_of_the_Illustrations_in_Jena_Codex
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:
https://muzeum3000.nm.cz/national-museum-news/top-items-%E2%80%93-the-jena-codex#JenaCodex #JanHus #Books #ManuscriptIllumination #Bohemia #Czechia #CzechHistory #Art #MedievalArt