RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Kolářová, Šárka
T1 The Renaissance Crypt and the Painted Armorial Gallery in Honour and Eternal Memory of the Lords of Vrábí in the Church of Saint John the Baptist at Stražiště near Březnice
JF Průzkumy památek
YR 2020
VO 27
IS 2
SP 35
OP 66
DO 10.56112/pp.2020.2.03
UL https://pruzkumypamatek.cz/en/artkey/prp-202002-0003.php
AB The Church of Saint John the Baptist at Stražiště conceals under the presbytery a Renaissance crypt that continues the memorial decoration of the liturgical space. During 1613-1616 William Tluksa Vrábský of Vrábí (the Eldest) designed it as a family necropolis. It is necessary to understand the memorial inscription with the painted armorial gallery in the background of a long-lasting dispute over the patronage right between the Vrábský of Vrábí and the Loubský of Lub families that is supported by exceptionally valuable written sources. The ancient tradition of the funeral of the owners of the Drahenice farm in the church at Stražiště is mediated by eight 16th century tombstones with legible inscriptions. They include biographical data that is a unique source for genealogical bonds of the family that died out long ago. Archival research brought an abundance of key information for the architectural development of the sacral compound and facilitated to partially reveal the non-implemented plans of the Schwarzenberg secundogeniture to build a Neo-classicist family tomb at Stražiště in the 1830 s in close proximity to the Renaissance necropolis of the Lords of Vrábí.