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STUDENT LIFE

IV (1346—1378) is the most important period in Czech mediaeval architecture,(Courtesy of Art and Archaeology.)

Panels by Theodoricus Pragensis, the Court Painter of Charles IV., From the Altar of the Church at Roudnice, Bohemia. and the master from Avignon, Mathew d’Arras, was soon followed by a pleiad of independent Czech Gothic builders such as Peter Parler and Mathius Reisek. These men, however, were not pure imitators of the Avignon master, but created independently a new post-Gothic style reflecting the genius loci. The ogival style was submitted to a further transformation after the Hussite War

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