Jan Staněk
(15th century) | Mason |
Jan was most likely a
member of the Prague Mason\'s guild. His history is somewhat
unclear and difficult to follow. From 1405 to 1410 Hans Krumenauer
appeared in Passau who from 1407 was site manager of the
construction of a local Cathedral. A stone-cutter of the same name
had lived for some time in Landshut. The stone-cutter from Passau
had a son Štěpán, a significant initiator of late Gothic
architecture in Podunají, who decorated his coat-of-arms with a
five-petaled rose. The Český Krumlov obituary mentions that on
March 6 of an unknown year the stone-cutter Jan died while working
on the construction of a vicarage church. The stone-cutter Jan had
been called to finish the Saint
Vitus church in Český Krumlov. He brought modern methods with
him to Prague - flame tracery for windows and reticulated parlor
type vaults that were made according to contract in 1407. For
unknown reasons Jan was not granted to finish his work.
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