Karel Škréta

1610–1674 · Baroque

Karel Škréta Šotnovský of Závořice (1610 – 30 July 1674) was a Czech painter who worked in the Baroque style. He was mostly a portrait painter and painter of altarpieces. He lived through the Thirty Years' War which caused him some hardships as a Protestant which led him to leave Prague for Saxony and then Italy. Wikipedia

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“Portrait of the Gem-Cutter Dionysius Miseroni and His Family”, 1653 — National Gallery Prague
“The Maltese Bernhard de Witte”, 1651 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Saint Gregory”, 1644 — Dresden State Art Collections
“The mocking of Christ”, 1630 — Belvedere
“Saint Jerome”, 1645 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Saint Ambrose”, 1645 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Portrait of Maria Maximiliana von Sternberg (1641 - 1665)”, 1665 — National Gallery Prague
“Portrait of Count Johann Hartwig Graf Nostitz-Rieneck (1610-1683)”, 1672
“Saint Wenceslaus.”, 1650s — National Museum in Warsaw
“Portrait of the Maltese Knight Bernard de Witte”, 1651 — National Gallery Prague
“Portrait of a Miniature Painter” — National Gallery Prague
“The Birth of Saint Wenceslas”, 1640 — National Gallery Prague
“Portrait of the so-called Mathematician with his Wife”, 1640s — National Gallery Prague
“Portrait of Ignác Jetřich Vitanovský of Vlčkovice”, 1669 — National Gallery Prague
“St Martin Sharing His Cloak with a Beggar”, 1650 — National Gallery Prague
“Holy Family with St Catherine and St Barbara” — National Gallery Prague
“Portrait of Humprecht Johann Count Czernin of Chudenice (1628-1682)”, 1655 — National Gallery Prague
“Portrait of a man with blond hair”, 1649 — National Gallery Prague
“Franz Anton Hovora Count Berka of Dubá and Lipá and Aloisia Ludovica Anna de Montecuccoli as Paris and Helena”, 1670 — National Gallery Prague
“Saint Charles Borromeo Visiting Plague-Stricken in Milan”, 1647 — National Gallery Prague

Karel Škréta

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