Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia
This is one of Prague's must-see museums, where masterpieces stand side by side with masterpieces, especially in the first rooms devoted to sculptures and paintings from the 14th century, the century of Charles IV, which was one of the golden ages of artistic creation in Bohemia.
In the splendid setting of the Convent of St. Agnes, the city's oldest Gothic building, works by the major artists of the period are on display: the anonymous master of the Vyšší Brod cycle, whose iconographic and symbolic richness is astonishing; the master Theodoric, whose portraits genially embody the theological and political vision of Emperor Charles IV; and the master of Třeboň, whose works are bathed in unprecedented mysticism and lyricism.
The art of Bohemia in the 15th and 16th centuries, after the cataclysm of the Hussite wars that ravaged the country, may be less rich in masterpieces, but the presentation, based on a comparison with other creative centers of the period in Europe, is not lacking in interest.