The paper discusses the Central European origin of precious and relatively large art collection originating from Hmeljnik (Hopfenbach) castle, which was owned by German family Wambolt from 1876 on and was burnt down in 1942. It includes a survey of paintings, holed by the Franciscan monastery in Novo mesto (Franciscan fathers would go to celebrate the holy mass in the castle chapel on regular basis), but focuses on a portrait of a hitherto anonymous prince-bishop identified as Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim. Painting can be attributed to Franz Lippold, a painter of Frankfurt.
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In the cloister of the Cistercian abbey of Stična, the earliest monastery in Slovenia, founded in 1136, several pieces of Romanesque architectural sculpture were discovered in 2002. With a thorough comparative analysis the author of the study managed to find close connections of Stična with the Cistercian 12th century art in Burgundy, place of origin of this monastic order. The cognition that Stična and Slovenian countries were directly connected with one of artistically most advanced countries in Europe of the time – France – is important for the entire Central Europe.
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