'St Vitus', 1365-1367 (1955). Artist: Master Theodoric

---

'St Vitus', 1365-1367 (1955). Born in Sicily, St Vitus was martyred in 303 during the persecution of Christians by the co-Emperors Diocletian and Maximian. Prague's cathedral is named for him. Theodoric's magnum opus is a collection of panel and wall paintings of saints, prophets and angels, commissioned by King Charles IV of Bohemia for the Chapel of the Holy Cross at Karlstejn Castle. A print from Gothic Painting in Bohemia 1350-1450, by Antonin Matejcek and Jaroslav Pesina, Artia Prague, 1955.

---

Size: 3772px × 4644px
Location: World,Europe,Italy,Sicily
Photo credit: © The Print Collector/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 14th, 4th, ages, antonin, art, arts, bohemian, century, christian, christianity, collector, color, colour, country, czech, fourteenth, guy, holding, italian, italy, jaroslav, location, male, man, martyr, martyrdom, master, matejcek, mediaeval, medieval, men, middle, painting, people, persecution, pesina, portrait, prague, print, religion, religious, saint, sicilian, sicily, staff, tgn, theodoric