ST PROKOP’S BASILICA
IN TØEBÍÈ
ISSUE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS
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BEAUTIES OF OUR COUNTRY ST PROKOP’S BASILICA IN TØEBÍÈ |
ISSUE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS |
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| Date of issue: | 23. 3. 2005 | |
| Face value: | 14 CZK | |
| Printing sheets: | 8 pcs | |
| Size of the stamp: | 26 x 40 mm | |
| Graphic Artist: | Pavel Dvorský | |
| Engraver: | Jaroslav Tvrdoò | |
| Method of printing: | recess print from flat plates | |
| Colours of the stamps: | yellow, red, blue and brown | |
| Subject of the stamp: | In mid-13th century the original Benedictine monastery from 1101 was rebuilt and heavily fortified. After its burning down by the Hungarian army in 1468 it became a ruin. In the 2nd half of the 16th century the building was rebuilt into a renaissance chateau and, at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, baroquized by the Wallenstein family. The most valuable part of the building is a three-navy basilica of St Prokop (originally the church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary) erected in 1240-60 in the transitional romanesque-gothic style. The basilica’s interior is mainly gothic while the system predominantly revealed in the exterior is a rich late romanesque formal system. The northern open portico features a monumental portal called Porta paradisi - The Gate to the Paradise. The presbytery with a vaulting of eight ribs has three rose windows and 15 small windows in three horizontal rows. Adjoining to the main navy on the left is the abbot’s chapel with early gothic wall painting decorations. The undercro | |
| Catalogue No.: | 0429 | |
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