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The Master of the Rajhrad Altarpiece probably had a workshop in Prague and retreated to Moravia after the outbreak of the Hussite Wars in 1420-1440, only to return to Prague during the reign of Sigismund.The altar with the theme of the Adoration of the Holy Cross, together with another Gothic altar, was intended for the church of St Maurice in Olomouc, as confirmed by written records from 1424 ...

Detail from the Rajhrad Cruxifixion, part of the Rajhrad Altarpiece (c. 1430-40). The Master of the Rajhrad Altarpiece (sometimes called the Master of Raigern) was a Bohemian painter active in the region around Olomouc and Brno before 1420. Likely of Moravian extraction, he derives his name from an altarpiece that once hung in the church of Saint Maurice in Olomouc; since disassembled, some ...

How the Hussite Wars changed the medieval battlefield . ssite Wars changed the medieval battlefieldJan Žižka's wagons of warOn 6 July 1415, Master John Hus of Prague University, a Church reformer and admirer. f John Wycliffe, was burnt at the stake in Konstanz (Germany) for heresy. His guilt had been announced by the ecclesiastical council ...