Mucha slav epic

THE SLAV EPIC

Art Gallery Guide: Alphonse Mucha's Masterpiece, the Slav Epic | The Creative Adventurer

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detail from Introduction of the Slavic Liturgy

Alphonse Mucha’s illustrated edition of The Lord’s Prayer.

If you pass by Prague, do not miss Mucha’s Slav Epic at the Museum of Modern and contemporary Art. Aphonse Mucha was one of the major Art Nouveau representative: his […]

The Slavs in their original homeland. Where are all the symbols in the first of The Slav Epic cycles hiding? What does the floating trio to the right mean?

Alphonse Mucha [Czech Art Nouveau Printmaker, 1860-1939] Oil on canvas. One in the series of The Slav Epic The Slav Epic Mucha spent many years working on what he considered his life's fine art masterpiece, The Slav Epic, a series of twenty huge paintings depicting the history of the Czech and the Slavic people in general, bestowed to the city of Prague during 1928. He had wanted to complete a series such as this, a celebration of Slavic history, since he was young. Since 1963 the series has…