Europa Jagellonica

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The Czech-German-Polish exhibition project presents art and culture in Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era. For the first time in history, art and culture are presented in a wide international context. In a way, the project follows the previous successful exhibition “Charles IV – Emperor by the Grace of God” in 2005-2006, which took place at Prague Castle and the Metropolitan Museum in New York and attracted more than 250,000 visitors.

The exhibition will showcase up to 200 outstanding works of art of medieval provenance, most of which are today scattered in museums across Europe and the USA. Quite a few of the works remain at their original locations, i.e. in churches, chapels, councillor halls, etc. The majority has not been on display abroad.

The exhibition project is organized by four museums of art from the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany in cooperation with the Research Institute for Social Sciences at Leipzig University (GWZO), which is the coordinating institution. It was in GWZO where the general concept of the exhibition originated, and it is backed up by the results of a five-year international research project financed by Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), published in the newly established edition line of Studio Jagellonica Lipsiensia (GWZO with Thorbecke Verlag in Ostfildern), which was held by the Leipzig Institute between 2000 and 2005. The team of researchers cooperated with more than fifty renowned experts from Europe and the USA.