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Article: Prague in the Middle Ages.(Current and coming)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has an enviable track record for organizing large shows devoted to the artistic climate of a single place during a single historical epoch. An exhibition devoted to Byzantium comes to mind as one of the more recent ones that successfully challenged the uninitiated to appreciate and understand the topic, much of it completely foreign to modern eyes. This autumn the museum's subject is medieval Prague--a city with a complex and often confusing geographical, political, and religious history, but with an astonishingly beautiful artistic legacy. The show is entitled Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437, and is on view until ...