CONTEXTS - The Rough Guide to Prague - page 398

sad park
sál room or hall (in a chateau or castle)
schody steps
svatý/svatá saint; often abbreviated to sv
třída avenue
ulice street
věž tower
vinárna wine bar or cellar
Vltava River Moldau
vrchy hills
výstava exhibition
zahrada garden
zámek chateau
Architecture, design and decorative arts terms
Ambulatory Passage round the back of the altar, in continuation of the aisles.
ArtNouveau French term for the sinuous and stylized form dating from 1900 to 1910; known as the Secese ( Seces-
sion ) in the Czech Republic and as Jugendstil in Germany.
Baroque Expansive, exuberant style of the seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, characterized by ornate dec-
oration, complex spatial arrangement and grand vistas.
Chancel The part of the church where the altar is placed, usually at the east end.
Empire Highly decorative Neoclassical style practised in the early 1800s.
Fresco Mural painting applied to wet plaster, so that the colours immediately soak into the wall.
Functionalism Plain, boxy, modernist style, prevalent in the late 1920s and 1930s in Czechoslovakia, often using
plate-glass curtain walls and open-plan interiors.
Gothic Prevalentfromthefourteenthtothesixteenthcenturies,characterized bypointedarchesandribbedvaulting.
Loggia Covered area on the side of a building, often arcaded.
Nave Main body of a church, usually the western end.
Neoclassical Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century style returning to classical Greek and Roman models as
a reaction against Baroque and Rococo excesses.
Oriel A bay window, usually projecting from an upper floor.
Rococo Highly florid, fiddly, though (occasionally) graceful, style forming the last phase of Baroque.
Romanesque Solid style of the late tenth to thirteenth centuries, characterized by round-headed arches and geomet-
rical precision.
Secession Linear and stylized form imported from Vienna as a reaction against the academic establishment.
Sgraffito Monochrome plaster decoration effected by scraping back the first white layer to reveal the black under-
neath.
Stucco Plaster used for decorative effects.