He probably spent some time in Siena around 1420, perhaps in the circle of Taddeo di Bartolo. Its creator was a well-educated artist he traveled a lot, most likely both to Italy and to the Netherlands. The Lamentation of Chomranice, now in the Diocesan Museum, Tarnów, though not well-known outside Poland, is one of the most interesting examples of Polish panel painting of the first half of the fifteenth century. Older known finds from the Czech region have been mostly incorrectly interpreted, unlike the finds in Poland and Western Europe. During this research, several of these artifacts were found in the area of the original civic parcels. The contribution is going to present a collection of these artifacts, which were found during a rescue archeological research in the locality Palác Národní in Prague New Town. To characteristic features of these artifacts belong holes or troughs for placing of individual turnspits and often rich stamped and engraved decoration. These supports were a fixed part of raised kitchen furnaces and served for holding a metal turnspit above the fire. They represent a special kind of building ceramics that is not very common. To specific finds belong the brick spit-supports. They mainly comprise metal turnspits and various kinds of metal stands and devices for turning the prepared food. We know them from many archeological, iconographical and written sources. Spits and their parts belong to artifacts that were an integral part of many medieval kitchens. The urban law and structure, too, were adapted to them. The transformation of Central European proto-towns into communal towns was a process of their adaptation to new economic challenges. The breakthrough was based on the adoption of a new model of the economy and its driving force was the influx of settlers from Western Europe. The choice of Prague, Wrocław and Kraków, the most important urban centres in Bohemia, Silesia and Małopolska, stems from the fact that these cities clearly illustrate the cultural breakthrough that occurred in Central and Eastern Europe in the high Middle Ages. Both spheres were necessary to the urban lifestyle, reconciling communal interests, economic objectives and private life. Life in urban areas went on in separate but overlapping public and private spaces. The starting point for the present analysis is a thesis that the urban living conditions were special, different from the conventions typical of rural areas and elite communities. It was expressed in a new organisation of the urban space, emergence of private plots of land and new living conditions. The aim of the book is to contribute to the discussion about medieval urbanisation of Central and Eastern Europe, and the transformation of lifestyle that took place in the 12th–14th centuries.
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